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You are before me, Lord

Author: Ian Pitt-Watson Meter: 10.10.10.10 Appears in 11 hymnals First Line: You are before me, Lord, you are behind

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HIGHLAND CATHEDRAL

Meter: 10.10.10.10 Appears in 8 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Uli Roever; Michael Korb Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 12321 61233 34543 Used With Text: You Are Before Me, Lord
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SURSUM CORDA

Meter: 10.10.10.10 Appears in 76 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Alfred Morton Smith, 1879-1971 Tune Key: D Major Incipit: 13543 21221 56716 Used With Text: You are before me, Lord, you are behind

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You are before me, Lord, you are behind

Author: Ian Robertson Pitt-Watson, 1923-95 Hymnal: Together in Song #87 (1999) Meter: 10.10.10.10 Topics: Commissioning Service; Confidence; Faithfulness of God; Holy Spirit; Judgment of God; Longing for God; Ministry of Women; Mystery of God's Love; Pilgrimage; Protection; Providence; Repentance; Sanctification Scripture: Psalm 139:1-6 Languages: English Tune Title: SURSUM CORDA
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You Are Before Me, Lord (Psalm 139)

Author: Ian Pitt-Watson Hymnal: Glory to God #28 (2013) Meter: 10.10.10.10 First Line: You are before me, Lord, you are behind Topics: Creation; Guidance; Living in Christ; Providence Scripture: Psalm 139 Languages: English Tune Title: SURSUM CORDA (Smith)

You are before me, Lord

Author: Ian Pitt-Watson, 1923-1995 Hymnal: The Book of Praise #101 (1997) Meter: 10.10.10.10 First Line: You are before me, Lord; you are behind Topics: God Shelter / Shield; God Presence of; Metrical Psalms Scripture: Psalm 139:5-12 Languages: English Tune Title: SURSUM CORDA

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Michael Korb

Composer of "HIGHLAND CATHEDRAL" in Psalms for All Seasons Michael Korb is a German composer and musician, known particularly for writing the “Scottish Anthem,” HIGHLAND CATHEDRAL. Laura de Jong

Carl P. Daw Jr.

b. 1944 Person Name: Ian Pitt-Watson, 1923-1995 Paraphraser of "You are before me, Lord" in The Book of Praise 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

Alfred M. Smith

1879 - 1971 Person Name: Alfred Morton Smith Composer of "SURSUM CORDA (SMITH)" in The Presbyterian Hymnal Alfred Morton Smith (1879-1971) was born in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania, and studied at the University of Pennsylvania (B.S. 1901) and Philadelphia Divinity School (B.D. 1905; S.T.B. 1911). An Episcopalian, Smith was ordained a deacon (1905) and a priest (1906). After a short time in Philadelphia and Long Beach, California, he served at St. Matthias Church, Los Angeles, for ten years. He was a chaplain in the U.S. Army during World War I, returning to Philadelphia in 1919, where he spent the remainder of his career. He retired in 1955. In 1963, Smith moved to Drium Moir, Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania, and in 1968 to Brigantine, New Jersey, where he remained until his death. --The Presbyterian Hymnal Companion, 1993