Here on the Threshold

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Here on the threshold of a new beginning

Author: Timothy Dudley-Smith
Tune: ADVENT (Archer)
Published in 5 hymnals

Piano/Organ
	O Dearest Friend (Choral Score)

Choral
	A Child Is Born

Handbells
	Ring the World Around (A Multicultural C…

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Author: Timothy Dudley-Smith

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: Thirt… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Here on the threshold of a new beginning
Title:	Here on the Threshold
Author:	Timothy Dudley-Smith
Meter:	11.10.11.10 D
Language:	English
Copyright:	© Timothy Dudley-Smith in Europe and Africa ; © Hope Publishing company for the United States of America and the rest of the world