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Speak forth Your word, O Father
Author: Charles Joseph Jeffries, 1896-1972 Meter: 7.6.7.6.7.6.7.6 Appears in 6 hymnals Used With Tune: AURELIA
Speak forth Your word, O Father
SPEAK FORTH THY WORD
Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Theodore A. Beck, 1929- Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 46517 32756 21 Used With Text: Speak Forth Thy Word, O Father
SPEAK FORTH THY WORD
Speak Forth Your Word, O Father
Author: Charles Jeffries Hymnal: Psalter Hymnal (Gray) #529 (1987) Meter: 7.6.7.6.7.6.7.6 Topics: Church and Mission; Creation; Missions; Nation; Witness; Word of God Scripture: Romans 10:14-17 Languages: English Tune Title: DURROW
Speak Forth Your Word, O Father
Speak forth Your word, O Father
Author: Charles Joseph Jeffries, 1896-1972 Hymnal: The Irish Presbyterian Hymnbook #640 (2004) Meter: 7.6.7.6.7.6.7.6 Languages: English Tune Title: AURELIA
Speak forth Your word, O Father
Speak Forth Thy Word, O Father
Author: Charles Jeffries Hymnal: Worship Supplement #760 (1969) Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Topics: The Church Mission Tune Title: SPEAK FORTH THY WORD
Speak Forth Thy Word, O Father
Charles Jeffries
b. 1896 Person Name: Charles Joseph Jeffries, 1896-1972 Author of "Speak forth Your word, O Father" in The Irish Presbyterian Hymnbook Jeffries, Sir Charles Joseph. (Beckenham, Kent, UK, 1896--December 10, 1972, Bromley, London). Church of England. Son of C.D. Jeffries. Married Myrtle Bennett, 1921. Graduated Malvern College and Magdalen College, Oxford. Lieutenant, Wilts Regiment, British Army, 1915-1917; Second Class Clerk, Colonial Office, 1917-1920; Principal, Colonial Office, 1920-1930; Assistant Secretary and Establishment Officer, Colonial Office, 1930-1939; Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Colonial Office, 1939-1947; Joint Department Under-Secretary of State, Colonial Office, 1947-1956.
Vice president for many years of the United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel; member of the governing board of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; member of the House of Laity, Anglican Church, 1950-1955. Officer, Order of the British Empire, 1937; Knight Commander of St. Michael and St. George, 1943.
He wrote numerous books about Britain's colonial empire, and numerous articles on Christian unity. In his more famous book, Towards the Centre (1958), he described the "Centre" not as Rome, Canterbury, or Jerusalem, but Christ, who draws all men to himself. He wrote one hymn, "Speak Forth Your Word," which was first published in The Hymn Book of the Anglican Church of Canada and the United Church of Canada (1975).
--C. Bernard Ruffin, DNAH Archives
Charles Jeffries
Samuel Sebastian Wesley
1810 - 1876 Person Name: Samuel Sebastian Wesley, 1819-1876 Composer of "AURELIA" in The Irish Presbyterian Hymnbook Samuel Sebastian Wesley (b. London, England, 1810; d. Gloucester, England, 1876) was an English organist and composer. The grandson of Charles Wesley, he was born in London, and sang in the choir of the Chapel Royal as a boy. He learned composition and organ from his father, Samuel, completed a doctorate in music at Oxford, and composed for piano, organ, and choir. He was organist at Hereford Cathedral (1832-1835), Exeter Cathedral (1835-1842), Leeds Parish Church (1842-1849), Winchester Cathedral (1849-1865), and Gloucester Cathedral (1865-1876). Wesley strove to improve the standards of church music and the status of church musicians; his observations and plans for reform were published as A Few Words on Cathedral Music and the Music System of the Church (1849). He was the musical editor of Charles Kemble's A Selection of Psalms and Hymns (1864) and of the Wellburn Appendix of Original Hymns and Tunes (1875) but is best known as the compiler of The European Psalmist (1872), in which some 130 of the 733 hymn tunes were written by him.
Bert Polman
Samuel Sebastian Wesley
Theodore Beck
1929 - 2003 Person Name: Theodore A. Beck, 1929- Composer of "SPEAK FORTH THY WORD" in Worship Supplement Theodore Beck taught music theory, composition and organ at Concordia University in Seward. He composed many pieces for organ and church choirs. He died on September 19, 2003 in College Station, Texas.
NN, Hymnary editor. Source: September 22, 2003 edition of the Lincoln Journal Star
Theodore Beck
