Who Honors Courage Here?

Who honors courage here, who fights the devil

Author: Michael Saward (1981)
Tune: MONKS GATE
CCLI Number: 3209886
Published in 3 hymnals

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Author: Michael Saward

Michael John Saward (b. Blackheath, Kent, England, 1932) was residentiary Canon of St. Paul's Cathedral, London, and a church commissioner and member of the general synod of the Church of England. Educated at Eltham College, Bristol University, and Tyndale Hall, he was ordained in the Church of England in 1956. Saward served in several congregations and was radio and television officer for the Church Information Office (1967-1972). His publications include Leisure (1963), Couldn’t Care Less (1966), Don't Miss the Party (1974), and All Change (1983). Associated with the Jubilate Group for a number of years, he has written some sixty hymns and served as text editor for Hymns for Today's Church (1982). Bert Polman Go to person page >

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First Line: Who honors courage here, who fights the devil
Title: Who Honors Courage Here?
Author: Michael Saward (1981)
Source: After John Bunyan, 1684
Language: English
Notes: Poem
Copyright: © 1982 Hope Publishing Company

Tune

MONKS GATE

Transcribed on 22 December 1904 by Ralph Vaughan Williams from the singing of Mrs. Harriet Verrall, of Monks Gate, Sussex, included in the Journal of the Folk-Song Society, vol. 2, no.8 (1906) and in The English Hymnal (1906).

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