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Text:Through Love to Light
Author:Richard W. Gilder, 1844-1909
Tune:FINLANDIA
Composer:Jean Sibelius, 1865-1957

618. Through Love to Light

Through love to light! O wonderful the way
That leads from darkness to the perfect day;
From darkness and from sorrow of the night
To morning that comes singing o’er the sea!
Through love to light through light, O God, to Thee
Who art the Love of love, th’eternal Light of light!

Amen.

Text Information
First Line: Through love to light! O wonderful the way
Title: Through Love to Light
Author: Richard W. Gilder, 1844-1909
Language: English
Publication Date: 2011
Topic: Service Music: Responses; Illumination; Prayer
Tune Information
Name: FINLANDIA
Composer: Jean Sibelius, 1865-1957
Key: F Major or modal
Source: Arr. for The Hymnal, 1933
Copyright: By permission of Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden; Arr. © 1933, by the Presbyterian Board of Christian Education, renewed, 1961, from "The Hymnal"



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