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23. God, You Spin the Whirling Planets

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First Line: God, you spin the whirling planets
Title: God, You Spin the Whirling Planets
Author: Jane Parker Huber (1978)
Meter: 8.7.8.7.D
Language: English
Publication Date: 2013
Scripture: ; ;
Topic: Community in Christ; Creation; Ministry (2 more...)
Copyright: © 1980 Jane Parker Huber (admin. Westminster John Knox Press)
ONE LICENSE: 40188
Tune Information
Name: PLEADING SAVIOR
Harmonizer: Richard Proulx (1986)
Meter: 8.7.8.7.D
Key: E♭ Major
Source: American melody, 1830
Copyright: Harm. © 1986 GIA Publications, Inc.
Notes: (alternate harmonization, 717); (alternate tune: AUSTRIAN HYMN)


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This text was written for the 1979 National Meeting of United Presbyterian Women, whose theme, “In the Image of God," is variously considered here as reflection, focus, distortion, and polishing for clarity. The words are well set to an anonymous 19th-century American tune.


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