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SMITH

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Wilbur Held Tune Key: f minor Incipit: 55434 23254 Used With Text: O Lord of Love and Power

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O Lord of love and power, Your wisdom is the cross

Author: Herbert Brokering Hymnal: Hymn Society of America [Hymns Published for Special Occasions, and on Special Subjects] 1942-79 #d156 (1978) Languages: English Tune Title: SMITH

O Lord of Love and Power

Author: Herbert Brokering Hymnal: Three Hymns for 1979 #1 (1979) Tune Title: SMITH

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Herbert Brokering

1926 - 2009 Author of "O Lord of love and power, Your wisdom is the cross" Herbert F. Brokering (b. Beatrice, Nebraska, May 21, 1926; d. Bloomington, Minnesota, November 7, 2009) was a Lutheran pastor with German roots, an author of more than forty books, and a poet and hymn writer known especially for two hymn texts, “Earth and All Stars” and “Alleluia! Christ Is Risen,” both set to the same tune. He was born in Nebraska, the son of a German Lutheran pastor; earned degrees from Wartburg College in Iowa, University of Iowa, and Trinity Lutheran Seminary in Columbus, OH, and pursued graduate study in Germany at the University of Kiel and the University of Erlangen. He served as a pastor of three Lutheran congregations, in Pennsylvania, New York, and Texas; taught at the Navy Chaplain’s Career School in Newport, Rhode Island, Luther Seminary and Trinity Seminary, and was also active in the Lutheran World Federation services and the World Council of Churches. Emily Brink

Wilbur Held

1914 - 2015 Composer of "SMITH" in Hymn Society of America [Hymns Published for Special Occasions, and on Special Subjects] 1942-79
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