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Now, Lord! according to thy word

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 2 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Now, Lord! according to thy word, let me in my peace depart; mine eyes have thy salvation seen, and gladness fills my heart. 2 That Sun I now behold, whose light shall heathen darkness chase, and rays of brightest glory pour around thy chosen race. 3 This great salvation, long prepared, and now disclosed to view, hath proved thy love was constant still, and promises were true. Topics: Christ Incarnate Christmas and Epiphany; The Church Celebrates Death and Grieving; Christian Year Candlemas; Funerals general; Light Scripture: Luke 2:29-32 Used With Tune: LAND OF REST Text Sources: Scottish Paraphrases, 1781

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LAND OF REST

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 194 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Charles Haizlip Webb, b. 1933; Annabel Morris Buchanan, 1899-1983 Tune Sources: American traditional melody Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 51123 51165 51123 Used With Text: Now, Lord! according to thy word

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Now, Lord! according to thy word

Hymnal: Church Hymnary (4th ed.) #333 (2005) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Lyrics: 1 Now, Lord! according to thy word, let me in my peace depart; mine eyes have thy salvation seen, and gladness fills my heart. 2 That Sun I now behold, whose light shall heathen darkness chase, and rays of brightest glory pour around thy chosen race. 3 This great salvation, long prepared, and now disclosed to view, hath proved thy love was constant still, and promises were true. Topics: Christ Incarnate Christmas and Epiphany; The Church Celebrates Death and Grieving; Christian Year Candlemas; Funerals general; Light Scripture: Luke 2:29-32 Languages: English Tune Title: LAND OF REST

Now, Lord! according to thy word

Hymnal: Hymns of Glory, Songs of Praise #333 (2008) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Lyrics: 1 Now, Lord! according to thy word, let me in my peace depart; mine eyes have thy salvation seen, and gladness fills my heart. 2 That Sun I now behold, whose light shall heathen darkness chase, and rays of brightest glory pour around thy chosen race. 3 This great salvation, long prepared, and now disclosed to view, hath proved thy love was constant still, and promises were true. Topics: Christ Incarnate Christmas and Epiphany; The Church Celebrates Death and Grieving; Christian Year Candlemas; Funerals general; Light Scripture: Luke 2:29-32 Languages: English Tune Title: LAND OF REST

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Charles H. Webb

b. 1933 Person Name: Charles Haizlip Webb, b. 1933 Harmonizer of "LAND OF REST" in Church Hymnary (4th ed.)

Annabel Morris Buchanan

1888 - 1983 Person Name: Annabel Morris Buchanan, 1899-1983 Collector of "LAND OF REST" in Church Hymnary (4th ed.) Born: October 22, 1888, Groesbeck, Texas. Died: January 6, 1983, Paducah, Kentucky. Buried: Round Hill Cemetery, Marion, Virginia. Daughter of William Caruthers Morris and Anna Virginia Foster, and wife of John Preston Buchanan, Anna received her musical training at the Landon Conservatory of Music, Dallas, Texas (to which she received a scholarship at age 15); the Guilmant Organ School, New York; and studying with Emil Liebling, William Carl, and Cornelius Rybner, among others. She taught music in Texas; at Halsell College, Oklahoma (1907-08); and at Stonewall Jackson College, Abingdon, Virginia (1909-12). In 1912, she married John Preston Buchanan, a lawyer, writer, and senator, from Marion, Virginia; they moved to their home, Roseacre, in Marion, where they had four children. Buchanan served as president of the Virginia Federation of Music Clubs in 1927, and helped organize the first Virginia State Choral Festival in 1928, and White Top Folk Festivals (1931-41). After her husband’s death in 1937, she sold Roseacre and moved to Richmond, Virginia, with her two youngest children. She taught music theory and composition and folk music at the University of Richmond (1939-40); during the summers, at the New England Music Camp, Lake Messalonskee, Oakland, Maine (1938-40); and at the Huckleberry Mountain Artists Colony near Hendersonville, North Carolina, in 1941. She later moved to Harrisonburg, Virginia, and taught at Madison College (1944-48). In 1951, she moved to Paducah, Kentucky. She later became the archivist of the folk music collecting project of the National Federation of Music Clubs, serving until 1963. Buchanan’s works include: Folk-Hymns of America (New York: J. Fischer, 1938) American Folk Music, 1939 Sources: Findagrave, accessed 15 Nov 2016 Hughes, pp. 329-30 Hustad, p. 213 © The Cyber Hymnal™. Used by permission. (www.hymntime.com