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Wild and Lone the Prophet's Voice

Author: Carl P. Daw, Jr. Appears in 9 hymnals Used With Tune: ABERYSTWYTH

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ABERYSTWYTH

Meter: 7.7.7.7 D Appears in 267 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Joseph Parry Tune Key: e minor Incipit: 11234 53213 21712 Used With Text: Wild and Lone the Prophet's Voice
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LA GRANGE

Meter: 7.7.7.7 D Appears in 4 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: David Ashley White Tune Key: g minor Incipit: 55117 51114 32125 Used With Text: Wild and Lone the Prophet's Voice

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Wild and Lone the Prophet's Voice

Author: Carl P. Daw, Jr. Hymnal: Sing a New Creation #38 (2022) Meter: 7.7.7.7 D Topics: Advent; Baptism of Jesus; John the Baptist Scripture: Matthew 3:1-12 Languages: English Tune Title: LA GRANGE
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Wild and Lone the Prophet’s Voice

Author: Carl P. Daw Jr. Hymnal: Glory to God #163 (2013) Meter: 7.7.7.7 D First Line: Wild and lone the prophet's voice Lyrics: 1 Wild and lone the prophet's voice echoes through the desert still, calling us to make a choice, bidding us to do God's will: "Turn from sin and be baptized; cleanse your heart and mind and soul. Quitting all the sins you prized, yield your life to God's control. 2 "Bear the fruit repentance sows: lives of justice, truth, and love. Trust no other claim than those; set your heart on things above. Soon the Lord will come in power, burning clean the threshing floor: then will flames the chaff devour; wheat alone shall fill God's store." 3 With such preaching, stark and bold, John proclaimed salvation near, and his timeless warnings hold words of hope to all who hear. So we dare to journey on, led by faith through ways untrod, till we come at last like John to behold the Lamb of God. Topics: Christian Year Baptism of Jesus; Christian Year Transfiguration; Faith; Hope; Jesus Christ Advent; Jesus Christ Life; Judgment; Living in Christ; Repentance Scripture: Isaiah 40:3 Languages: English Tune Title: ABERYSTWYTH
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Wild and Lone the Prophet's Voice

Author: Carl P. Daw, Jr., b. 1944 Hymnal: Worship (4th ed.) #390 (2011) Meter: 7.7.7.7 D Lyrics: 1 Wild and lone the prophet's voice Echoes through the desert still, Calling us to make a choice, Bidding us to do God's will: "Turn from sin and be baptized; Cleanse your heart and mind and soul. Quitting all the sins you prized, Yield your life to God's control." 2 "Bear the fruit repentance sows: Lives of justice, truth, and love. Trust no other claim than those; Set your heart on things above. Soon the Lord will come in pow'r, Burning clean the threshing floor: Then will flames the chaff devour; Wheat alone shall fill God's store." 3 With such preaching stark and bold John proclaimed salvation near, And his timeless warnings hold Words of hope to all who hear. So we dare to journey on, Led by faith through ways untrod, Till we come at last like John To behold the Lamb of God. Topics: Advent; Advent III C; Advent II A; Advent II C Languages: English Tune Title: ABERYSTWYTH

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Carl P. Daw Jr.

b. 1944 Author of "Wild and Lone the Prophet's Voice" in The Presbyterian Hymnal Carl P. Daw, Jr. (b. Louisville, KY, 1944) is the son of a Baptist minister. He holds a PhD degree in English (University of Virginia) and taught English from 1970-1979 at the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia. As an Episcopal priest (MDiv, 1981, University of the South, Sewanee, Tennesee) he served several congregations in Virginia, Connecticut and Pennsylvania. From 1996-2009 he served as the Executive Director of The Hymn Society in the United States and Canada. Carl Daw began to write hymns as a consultant member of the Text committee for The Hymnal 1982, and his many texts often appeared first in several small collections, including A Year of Grace: Hymns for the Church Year (1990); To Sing God’s Praise (1992), New Psalms and Hymns and Spiritual Songs (1996), Gathered for Worship (2006). Other publications include A Hymntune Psalter (2 volumes, 1988-1989) and Breaking the Word: Essays on the Liturgical Dimensions of Preaching (1994, for which he served as editor and contributed two essays. In 2002 a collection of 25 of his hymns in Japanese was published by the United Church of Christ in Japan. He wrote Glory to God: A Companion (2016) for the 2013 hymnal of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Emily Brink

Joseph Parry

1841 - 1903 Composer of "ABERYSTWYTH" in The Presbyterian Hymnal Joseph Parry (b. Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorganshire, Wales, 1841; d. Penarth, Glamorganshire, 1903) was born into a poor but musical family. Although he showed musical gifts at an early age, he was sent to work in the puddling furnaces of a steel mill at the age of nine. His family immigrated to a Welsh settlement in Danville, Pennsylvania in 1854, where Parry later started a music school. He traveled in the United States and in Wales, performing, studying, and composing music, and he won several Eisteddfodau (singing competition) prizes. Parry studied at the Royal Academy of Music and at Cambridge, where part of his tuition was paid by interested community people who were eager to encourage his talent. From 1873 to 1879 he was professor of music at the Welsh University College in Aberystwyth. After establishing private schools of music in Aberystwyth and in Swan sea, he was lecturer and professor of music at the University College of South Wales in Cardiff (1888-1903). Parry composed oratorios, cantatas, an opera, orchestral and chamber music, as well as some four hundred hymn tunes. Bert Polman

David Ashley White

b. 1944 Composer of "LA GRANGE" in Sing the Faith David Ashley White (b. 1944) is a seventh-generation Texan, born in San Antonio, and he both studied and taught in Texas throughout his career. He majored in oboe at Del Mar College, Corpus Christi, in composition for his Masters in Music at the University of Houston, and received a DMA from the University of Texas at Austin. Since 1977 he has been on the faculty of the Moores School of Music at the University of Houston, teaching theory and composition. White is a widely published composer of many types of compositions and has received many commissions. Selah Publishing Co. published three collections of his hymns. Emily Brink
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