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LEONI

Meter: 6.6.8.4 D Appears in 361 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Thomas Olivers (1725-1799) Tune Sources: Hebrew melody Tune Key: f minor Incipit: 51234 53456 75234 Used With Text: We turn to Christ anew

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We Turn to Christ Anew

Author: Timothy Dudley-Smith (b. 1926) Hymnal: Moravian Book of Worship #425 (1995) Meter: 6.6.8.4 D Lyrics: 1 We turn to Christ anew who hear his call today, his way to walk, his will pursue, his word obey. To serve him as our king and of his kingdom learn, from sin and ev'ry evil thing to hm we turn. 2 We trust in Christ to save; in him new life begins: who by his cross a ransom gave from all our sins. Our spirit's strength and stay who when all flesh is dust will keep us in that final day, in him we trust. 3 We would be true to him till earthly journeys end, whose love no passing years can dim, our changeless friend. May we who bear his name our faith and love renew, to follow Christ our single aim, and find him true. Topics: Reception of Members; Commitment; Confirmation; Following Christ; Journey; Reaffirmation of faith; Reception of Members Scripture: Mark 1:14-20 Languages: English Tune Title: YIGDAL (LEONI)
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We turn to Christ anew

Author: Timothy Dudley-Smith (b. 1926) Hymnal: Ancient and Modern #341 (2013) Meter: 6.6.8.4 D Lyrics: 1 We turn to Christ anew who hear his call today, his way to walk, his will pursue, his word obey. To serve him as our King and of his kingdom learn, from sin and every evil thing to him we turn. 2 We trust in Christ to save; in him new life begins: who by his cross a ransom gave from all our sins. Our spirits' strength and stay who when all flesh is dust will keep us on that final day, in him we trust. 3 We would be true to him till earthly journeys end, whose love no passing years can dim, our changeless friend. May we who bear his name our faith and love renew, to follow Christ our single aim, and find him true. Topics: Atonement; Christian Initiation; Commitment; Dedication of people; Discipleship; Other Saints and Festivals Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist; Pilgrimage; Renewal; Self-offering; Stages of Life; The Baptism of Christ Year B; Vocation Scripture: Matthew 4:17-22 Languages: English Tune Title: LEONI

We turn to Christ anew

Hymnal: Church Hymnal, Fifth Edition #604 (2000)

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Timothy Dudley-Smith

1926 - 2024 Person Name: Timothy Dudley-Smith (b. 1926) Author of "We Turn to Christ Anew" in Moravian Book of Worship 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: Thirty-six New Hymns (1988), and A Voice of Singing (1993). The writer of Christian Literature and the Church (1963), Someone Who Beckons (1978), and Praying with the English Hymn Writers (1989), Dudley-Smith has also served on various editorial committees, including the committee that published Psalm Praise (1973). Bert Polman

Thomas Olivers

1725 - 1799 Person Name: Thomas Olivers (1725-1799) Transcriber of "LEONI" in Ancient and Modern Thomas Olivers was born in Tregonan, Montgomeryshire, in 1725. His youth was one of profligacy, but under the ministry of Whitefield, he was led to a change of life. He was for a time apprenticed to a shoemaker, and followed his trade in several places. In 1763, John Wesley engaged him as an assistant; and for twenty-five years he performed the duties of an itinerant ministry. During the latter portion of his life he was dependent on a pension granted him by the Wesleyan Conference. He died in 1799. --Annotations of the Hymnal, Charles Hutchins, M.A., 1872. ================== Olivers, Thomas, was born at Tregynon, near Newtown, Montgomeryshire, in 1725. His father's death, when the son was only four years of age, followed by that of the mother shortly afterwards, caused him to be passed on to the care of one relative after another, by whom he was brought up in a somewhat careless manner, and with little education. He was apprenticed to a shoemaker. His youth was one of great ungodliness, through which at the age of 18 he was compelled to leave his native place. He journeyed to Shrewsbury, Wrexham, and Bristol, miserably poor and very wretched. At Bristol he heard G. Whitefield preach from the text "Is not this a brand plucked out of the fire?" That sermon turned the whole current of his life, and he became a decided Christian. His intention at the first was to join the followers of Whitefield, but being discouraged from doing so by one of Whitefield's preachers, he subsequently joined the Methodist Society at Bradford-on-Avon. At that town, where he purposed carrying on his business of shoemaking, he met John Wesley, who, recognising in him both ability and zeal, engaged him as one of his preachers. Olivers joined Wesley at once, and proceeded as an evangelist to Cornwall. This was on Oct. 1, 1753. He continued his work till his death, which took place suddenly in London, in March 1799. He was buried in Wesley's tomb in the City Road Chapel burying ground, London. Olivers was for some time co-editor with J. Wesley of the Arminian Magazine, but his lack of education unfitted him for the work. As the author of the tune Helmsley, and of the hymn “The God of Abraham praise," he is widely known. He also wrote “Come Immortal King of glory;" and "O Thou God of my salvation," whilst residing at Chester; and an Elegy on the death of John Wesley. His hymns and the Elegy were reprinted (with a Memoir by the Rev. J. Kirk) by D. Sedgwick, in 1868. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Meyer Lyon

1751 - 1797 Arranger of "YIGDAL (LEONI)" in Moravian Book of Worship Died: 1797, Kingston, Jamaica. Pseudonym: Leoni. Lyon was a chorister at the Great Synagogue, Duke’s Place, London, and a public singer either at Drury Lane or Covent Garden. Subsequently he became the first qualified chazan of the English and German Synagogue in Jamaica. Sources: Julian, p. 1151 McCutchan, pp. 27-28 Music: LEONI http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/l/y/o/lyon_m.htm ================ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myer_Lyon
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