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Christ Be My Leader

Author: Timothy Dudley-Smith Meter: Irregular Appears in 15 hymnals First Line: Christ be my leader by night as by day Lyrics: 1 Christ be my leader by night as by day; safe through the darkness for He is the Way. Gladly I follow, my future His care, darkness is daylight when Jesus is there. 2 Christ be my teacher in age as in youth, drifting or doubting, for He is the Truth. Grant me to trust Him; though shifting as sand, doubt cannot daunt me; in Jesus I stand. 3 Christ be my Savior in calm as in strife; death cannot hold me, for He is the Life. Darkness nor doubting nor sin and its stain can touch my salvation: with Jesus I reign. Topics: The Church on Mission Family; Daily Life; Jesus Christ-Savior; Trust Used With Tune: SLANE
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SLANE

Meter: Irregular Appears in 285 hymnals Tune Sources: Lutheran Service Book, 2006 (Setting) Tune Key: E Flat Major Incipit: 11216 56112 32222 Used With Text: Christ Be My Leader
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BONNIE GEORGE CAMPBELL

Meter: 10.10.10.10 Appears in 9 hymnals Tune Sources: Scottish traditional melody; Harm.: The Church Hymnary Third Edition, (1973) Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 16556 12123 16556 Used With Text: Christ be my leader by night as by day
BONNIE GEORGE CAMPBELL
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Meter: 10.10.10.10 Appears in 26 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Henry Thomas Smart, 1813-1879 Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 55653 21223 32154 Used With Text: Christ be my leader by night as by day
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Christ Be My Leader

Author: Timothy Dudley-Smith Hymnal: The Worshiping Church #107 (1990) Meter: 10.10.10.10 First Line: Christ be my leader by night as by day Lyrics: 1 Christ be my leader by night as by day, safe through the darkness, for he is the Way. Gladly I follow, my future his care, darkness is daylight when Jesus is there. 2 Christ be my teacher in age as in youth, drifting or doubting, for he is the Truth. Grant me to trust him; though shifting as sand, doubt cannot daunt me; in Jesus I stand. 3 Christ be my Saviour in calm as in strife; death cannot hold me, for he is the Life. Nor darkness, nor doubting, nor sin and its stain can touch my salvation: with Jesus I reign. Topics: Jesus Christ Guide; Jesus Christ Teacher; Encouragement; Jesus Christ Guide; Jesus Christ Presence of; Jesus Christ Teacher; Jesus Christ Final Victory; Praise of Jesus Christ; Security Scripture: John 8:12 Languages: English Tune Title: SLANE
Christ Be My Leader

Christ be my leader by night as by day

Author: Timothy Dudley-Smith, b. 1926 Hymnal: The Irish Presbyterian Hymnbook #495 (2004) Meter: 10.10.10.10 Languages: English Tune Title: SLANE
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Christ be my leader by night as by day

Author: Timothy Dudley-Smith, 1926- Hymnal: Together in Song #624 (1999) Meter: 10.10.10.10 Lyrics: 1 Christ be my leader by night as by day; safe through the darkness, for he is the way. Gladly I follow, my future his care, darkness is daylight when Jesus is there. 2 Christ be my teacher in age as in youth, drifting or doubting, for he is the truth. Grant me to trust him, though shifting as sand, doubt cannot daunt me; in Jesus I stand. 3 Christ be my Saviour in calm as in strife; death cannot hold me, for he is the life. Nor darkness nor doubting nor sin and its stain can touch my salvation: with Jesus I reign. Topics: Assurance; Commissioning Service; Decision for Christ; Discipleship; Doubt; Eternal Life; Evangelism; Guidance; Jesus Christ Redeemer; Saints Days and Holy Days St Thomas; Trust in God; Truth Scripture: 1 John 1:5-10 Languages: English Tune Title: BONNIE GEORGE CAMPBELL
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Timothy Dudley-Smith

1926 - 2024 Author of "Christ Be My Leader" in The Worshiping Church 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
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Carlton R. Young

b. 1926 Person Name: Carlton R. Young, 1926- Harmonizer of "SLANE" in Worship and Rejoice
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Martin Shaw

1875 - 1958 Harmonizer of "SLANE" in A New Hymnal for Colleges and Schools Martin F. Shaw was educated at the Royal College of Music in London and was organist and choirmaster at St. Mary's, Primrose Hill (1908-1920), St. Martin's in the Fields (1920-1924), and the Eccleston Guild House (1924-1935). From 1935 to 1945 he served as music director for the diocese of Chelmsford. He established the Purcell Operatic Society and was a founder of the Plainsong and Medieval Society and what later became the Royal Society of Church Music. Author of The Principles of English Church Music Composition (1921), Shaw was a notable reformer of English church music. He worked with Percy Dearmer (his rector at St. Mary's in Primrose Hill); Ralph Vaughan Williams, and his brother Geoffrey Shaw in publishing hymnals such as Songs of Praise (1925, 1931) and the Oxford Book of Carols (1928). A leader in the revival of English opera and folk music scholarship, Shaw composed some one hundred songs as well as anthems and service music; some of his best hymn tunes were published in his Additional Tunes in Use at St. Mary's (1915). Bert Polman
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