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The Servants of the Living Lord

Author: Timothy Dudley-Smith Meter: 7.7.7.7.7.7 Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: [The Servants of the Living Lord] Text Sources: A House of Praise (Hope Publishing Company,, 2003)

Ye servants of the living Lord

Author: Christopher Batty Appears in 1 hymnal

Ye servants of the living Lord, draw near

Author: Bright Appears in 1 hymnal

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The Servants of the Living Lord

Author: Timothy Dudley-Smith Hymnal: Scripture Song Database #3467 (2008) Meter: 7.7.7.7.7.7 First Line: [The Servants of the Living Lord] Scripture: Psalm 113 Languages: English

Ye servants of the living Lord

Author: Christopher Batty Hymnal: A Collection of Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs #d386 (1831) Languages: English

Ye servants of the living Lord, draw near

Author: Bright Hymnal: The St. Alban Hymnal #d521 (1921)

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Timothy Dudley-Smith

b. 1926 Author of "The Servants of the Living Lord" in Scripture Song Database 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

Christopher Batty

1715 - 1797 Author of "Ye servants of the living Lord" Batty, Christopher, born at Newby Cote, near Settle, Yorkshire, 1715, died April 19, 1797. He was a member of the "Inghamites," a religious denomination located principally in the northern parts of the counties of Lancashire and Yorkshire. He assisted James Allen (q. v.) in the production of the Kendal Hymn Book, 1757, to which he contributed 31 hymns. Very few of these are in common use at the present time. His "Captain of Thine enlisted host" (Missions ), from the Kendal Hymn Book. 1757, is found in Kemble's Collection, 1853, No. 475, and in Spurgeon's 0ur Own Hymn Book, No. 968. He completed his brother's poem, Messiah's Kingdom, which was printed in 1792. -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)