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Bless the Lord as day departs

Author: Timothy Dudley-Smith, 1926- Meter: 7.8.7.8 Appears in 3 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Bless the Lord as day departs; let your lamps be brightly burning, lifting holy hands and hearts to the Lord, till day's returning. 2 As within the darkened shrine, faithful to their sacred calling, sons and priests of Levi's line blest the Lord as night was falling: 3 so may we who watch or rest bless the Lord of earth and heaven, and by him ourselves be blest, grace and peace and mercy given. Topics: Evening; Grâce; Mercy; Metrical Psalms; Peace Scripture: Psalm 134 Used With Tune: ASTHALL

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ASTHALL

Meter: 7.8.7.8 Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: John Barnard Tune Key: G Major or modal Incipit: 32315 61233 45365 Used With Text: Bless the LORD as day departs

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Bless the Lord as day departs

Author: Timothy Dudley-Smith, 1926- Hymnal: The Book of Praise #94 (1997) Meter: 7.8.7.8 Lyrics: 1 Bless the Lord as day departs; let your lamps be brightly burning, lifting holy hands and hearts to the Lord, till day's returning. 2 As within the darkened shrine, faithful to their sacred calling, sons and priests of Levi's line blest the Lord as night was falling: 3 so may we who watch or rest bless the Lord of earth and heaven, and by him ourselves be blest, grace and peace and mercy given. Topics: Evening; Grâce; Mercy; Metrical Psalms; Peace Scripture: Psalm 134 Languages: English Tune Title: ASTHALL

Bless the LORD as day departs

Author: Timothy Dudley-Smith Hymnal: Praise! psalms hymns and songs for Christian worship #134 (2013) Meter: 7.8.7.8 Topics: Approaching God Morning and Evening Scripture: Psalm 134 Languages: English Tune Title: ASTHALL

Bless the Lord as day departs

Author: Timothy Dudley-Smith (born 1926) Hymnal: Hymns for Today's Church (2nd ed.) #608 (1987) Meter: 7.8.7.8 Topics: God's Church Doxology, Glory to God; Epiphany 2, Revelation The First Disciples Scripture: Psalm 134 Languages: English Tune Title: ASTHALL

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Timothy Dudley-Smith

1926 - 2024 Person Name: Timothy Dudley-Smith (born 1926) Author of "Bless the Lord as day departs" in Hymns for Today's Church (2nd 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

John Barnard

b. 1948 Person Name: John Barnard (born 1948) Composer of "ASTHALL" in Hymns for Today's Church (2nd ed.)
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