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89. Strengthen for Service

Text Information
First Line: Strengthen for service, Lord, the hands
Title: Strengthen for Service
Translator: C. W. Humphreys
Alterer: Percy Dearmer
Language: English
Publication Date: 1977
Topic: The Church: Holy Communion
Source: Syriac, Liturgy of Malabar
Copyright: Alt. by Percy Dearmer from SONGS OF PRAISE by permission of Oxford University Press.
Tune Information
Name: MALABAR
Composer: David McK. Williams
Meter: 87.87. (Iambic)
Key: Bâ™­ Major
Copyright: Music used by permission of the Church Pension Fund.



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