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There's a Voice in the Wilderness Crying

Author: James Lewis Milligan Meter: Irregular Appears in 24 hymnals First Line: There's a voice in the wilderness crying, A call from the ways untrod

Meter: Irregular Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Francis Donaldson Heins, 1878-1949 Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 55111 17153 11244 Used With Text: There's a Voice in the Wilderness Crying

ASCENSION

Meter: Irregular Appears in 13 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Henry Hugh Bancroft Tune Key: E Flat Major Incipit: 54312 32125 67123 Used With Text: There's A Voice In The Wilderness

[There's a voice in the wilderness crying]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Francis D. Heins Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 55111 17153 12443 Used With Text: There's A Voice In The Wilderness

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There's A Voice In The Wilderness

Author: James L. Milligan Hymnal: Clayton's Collection of Choir Melodies No. 2 #22 (1954) First Line: There's a voice in the wilderness crying Languages: English Tune Title: [There's a voice in the wilderness crying]

There's a Voice in the Wilderness

Author: James Lewis Milligan (1876-1961) Hymnal: Common Praise (1998) #106 (1998) Meter: Irregular First Line: There's a voice in the wilderness crying Lyrics: 1 There’s a voice in the wilderness crying, a call from the ways untrod: prepare in the desert a highway, a highway for our God! The valleys shall be exalted, the lofty hills brought low; make straight all the crooked places, where the Lord our God may go! 2 O Zion, give voice to good tidings, ascend to the heights and sing! Proclaim to a desolate people the coming of their King. The works of pride all perish, like flowers they shall decay; the power and pomp of nations shall pass like a dream away. 3 But your word, O God, is faithful, your arm, O Lord, is strong; you stand in the midst of nations, and you will right the wrong. You will feed your flock like a shepherd, and fold the lambs to your breast; in pastures of peace you’ll lead them, and give to the weary rest. 4 There’s a voice in the wilderness crying, a call from the ways untrod: prepare in the desert a highway, a highway for our God! The valleys shall be exalted, the lofty hills brought low; make straight all the crooked places, where the Lord our God may go! Topics: Advent; John, the Baptist Scripture: Isaiah 40:3-11 Languages: English Tune Title: ASCENSION

There's a Voice in the Wilderness Crying

Author: James L. Milligan Hymnal: Christian Worship (1993) #13 (1993) Meter: Irregular Lyrics: 1 There's a voice in the wilderness crying, A call from the ways untrod: Prepare in the desert a highway, A highway for our God! The valleys shall be exalted, The lofty hills brought low; Make straight all the crooked places Where the Lord our God may go! 2 O Christians, you bring good tidings; Get up to the heights and sing! Proclaim to a desolate people The coming of their King. Like the flow'rs of the field they perish; Like grass their works decay. The pow'r and pomp of nations Shall pass like a dream away; 3 But the Word of our God is eternal; The arm of the Lord is strong. He stands in the midst of the nations, And he shall right the wrong. He shall feed his flock like a shepherd, The lambs shall gently hold, To pastures of peace shall lead them, And bring them safe to his fold. Topics: Advent; Advent Languages: English Tune Title: ASCENSION

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James Lewis Milligan

1876 - 1961 Person Name: James Lewis Milligan, 1876-1961 Author of "There's a voice in the wilderness crying" in The Hymnal 1982 Milligan, James Lewis. (Liverpool, England, February 1, 1876--May 1, 1961, Scarborough Township, York County, Ontario). Son of Anglican parents, his early and only formal education was obtained at Anglican schools. Going to work in the building trades at the age of twelve, he applied himself so assiduously to self-study he soon began contributing to London papers. In 1910 a collection of his verse was published by a London hour resulting in his receiving the Hemans Prize for Lyrical Poetry. The next year, with his family, he emigrated to Canada and became a pastor on the Methodist circuit in Hastings County, Ontario. He was, variously, an editor, editorial writer, publicity director, and author. Among his published works are The Beckoning Skyline (verse), 1920; Judas Iscariot (a play), 1930. A more detailed account of his life can be found in Our Hymnody, p.483. Sources: McMillan, Alexander. Hymns of the Church; correspondence. --Robert G. McCutchan, DNAH Archives ========================= Milligan, James Lewis. (Liverpool, England, February 1, 1876--May 1, 1961, Toronto, Ont.). Methodist/United Church. After emigrating to Ontario in 1911, and spending two years at Actinolite as a Methodist lay-preacher, this active layman was never far from some form of journalism, having already written articles for London newspapers. He briefly edited the Peterborough Review (1913-1914) and the Stratford Beacon-Herald (1934-1937), besides writing editorials for the Toronto Globe and feature articles for the newspaper it later joined, The Mail and Empire. From 1926-1934 he handled public relations for Ontario's department of mines, as in 1922-1925 he had done for the three denominations (Methodist, Presbyterian, Congregational) which were planning to amalgamate into The United Church of Canada, despite signs that not all their members welcomed such a step. His sole hymn, a paraphrase of Isaiah 40, expressed the stated goals of the new denomination well enough to figure in its Hymnary (1930). --Hugh D. McKellar, DNAH Archives

H. Hugh Bancroft

1904 - 1988 Person Name: Henry Hugh Bancroft, b. 1904 Composer of "ASCENSION" in The Hymnal 1982 Henry Hugh Bancroft was born in Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire on February 29, 1904. Bancroft took his FRCO in 1925 and served as organist and choir director at Old Clee Parish Church for four years before emigrating to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1929. He began his Canadian career at St. Matthew’s Anglican Church. He completed an external BMus at Durham in 1936. In later life, Dr Bancroft spent several years in Vancouver as organist at Christ Church Cathedral and also director of the Vancouver Bach Choir. He died in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, on September 11, 1988. NN