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Happy Are Those, Beyond All Measure Indeed

Author: Timothy Dudley-Smith Meter: 10.10.10.10.10.10 Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: Happy are those, beyond all measure blessed Text Sources: A House of Praise (Hope Publishing Company,, 2003)

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HILASTERION

Meter: 10.10.10.10.10.10 Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: David G. Preston Tune Key: F Major or modal Incipit: 36711 44123 32125 Used With Text: Happy are those, beyond all measure blessed

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Happy are those, beyond all measure blessed

Author: Timothy Dudley-Smith Hymnal: Praise! psalms hymns and songs for Christian worship #32 (2013) Meter: 10.10.10.10.10.10 Scripture: Psalm 32 Languages: English Tune Title: HILASTERION

Happy are those, beyond all measure blessed

Hymnal: Sing Glory #172 (1999) Meter: 10.10.10.10.10.10

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Timothy Dudley-Smith

1926 - 2024 Author of "Happy are those, beyond all measure blessed" in Praise! psalms hymns and songs for Christian worship 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