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Timothy Dudley-Smith

b. 1926 Person Name: Timothy Dudley-Smith, b. 1926 Author of "From the Father's Throne on High" in Worship (4th ed.) Timothy Dudley-Smith (b. 1926) Educated at Pembroke College and Ridley Hall, Cambridge, Dudley-Smith has served the Church of England since his ordination in 1950. He has occupied a number of church posi­tions, including parish priest in the diocese of Southwark (1953-1962), archdeacon of Norwich (1973-1981), and bishop of Thetford, Norfolk, from 1981 until his retirement in 1992. He also edited a Christian magazine, Crusade, which was founded after Billy Graham's 1955 London crusade. Dudley-Smith began writing comic verse while a student at Cambridge; he did not begin to write hymns until the 1960s. Many of his several hundred hymn texts have been collected in Lift Every Heart: Collected Hymns 1961-1983 (1984), Songs of Deliverance: Thirty-six New Hymns (1988), and A Voice of Singing (1993). The writer of Christian Literature and the Church (1963), Someone Who Beckons (1978), and Praying with the English Hymn Writers (1989), Dudley-Smith has also served on various editorial committees, including the committee that published Psalm Praise (1973). Bert Polman

Martin Herbst

1654 - 1681 Person Name: Martin Herbst, 1654-1681 Composer of "HEINLEIN" in Worship (4th ed.) Born: January 15, 1654, Rotenbach, Germany. Died: 1681, Eisleben, Germany, of plague. Martin Herbst (1654-1681) was a German Lutheran clergyman. Herbst stu­died at St. Lo­renz School in Nürn­berg, and read the­ol­o­gy and phi­lo­so­phy at Alt­dorf and Je­na. He was made Rec­tor of the Gym­na­si­um in Eis­le­ben in 1680, and lat­er became pas­tor of St. An­dre­as church in the same town. --www.hymnswithoutwords.com/hymns

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