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'Thy kingdom come!'– on bended knee

Author: Frederick Lucian Hosmer (1840-1929) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 103 hymnals Topics: Justice and Peace Lyrics: 1 'Thy kingdom come!'--on bended knee the passing ages pray; and faithful souls have yearned to see on earth that kingdom's day. 2 But the slow watches of the night not less to God belong; and for the everlasting right the silent stars are strong. 3 And lo, already on the hills the flags of dawn appear; gird up your loins, ye prophet souls, proclaim the day is near: 4 The day in whose clear-shining light all wrong shall stand revealed, when justice shall be throned with might, and every heart be healed: 5 When knowledge, hand in hand with peace, shall walk the earth abroad, the day of perfect righteousness, the promised day of God. Scripture: 2 Peter 1:19 Used With Tune: IRISH

Christ is alive! Let Christians sing

Author: Brian Wren (b. 1936) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 55 hymnals Topics: Justice and Peace Lyrics: 1 Christ is alive! Let Christians sing. The cross stands empty to the sky. Let streets and homes with praises ring. Love, drowned in death, shall never die. 2 Christ is alive! No longer bound to distant years in Palestine, but saving, healing, here and now, and touching every place and time. 3 In every insult, rift and war, where colour, scorn or wealth divide, Christ suffers still, yet loves the more, and lives, where even hope has died. 4 Women and men, in age and youth, can feel the Spirit, hear the call, and find the way, the life, the truth, revealed in Jesus, freed for all. 5 Christ is alive, and comes to bring good news to this and every age, till earth and sky and ocean ring with joy, with justice, love and praise. Scripture: Matthew 28 Used With Tune: TRURO

O Holy City, Seen of John

Author: Walter Russell Bowie Meter: 8.6.8.6.8.6 Appears in 89 hymnals Topics: Justice and Peace Lyrics: 1 O holy city, seen of John, where Christ, the Lamb, does reign, within whose foursquare walls shall come no night, nor need, nor pain, And where the tears are wiped from eyes that shall not weep again. 2 O shame to us who rest content while lust and greed for gain in street and shop and tenement wring gold from human pain, And bitter lips in blind despair cry “Christ has died in vain!” 3 Give us, O God, the strength to build the city that has stayed too long a dream, whose laws are love, whose ways are your own ways, And where the sun that blazes is your grace for all our days. 4 Already in the mind of God that city is prepared: oh, how its splendor challenges the souls that greatly dare, Yes, bids us seize the whole of life and build its glory there. Scripture: Revelation 21, 22:1-5 Used With Tune: MORNING SONG

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MORNING SONG

Meter: 8.6.8.6.8.6 Appears in 181 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: C. Winfred Douglas Topics: Justice and Peace Tune Sources: Melody from Sixteen Tune Settings, 1812 Tune Key: f minor Incipit: 51234 32175 51234 Used With Text: O Holy City, Seen of John

VENI EMMANUEL

Meter: 8.8.8.8 with refrain Appears in 309 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Thomas Helmore Topics: Christ's Gracious Life Promised Coming; Christian Year Advent; Freedom and Liberation; Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ Example; Joy; Justice; Light; Peace, World Tune Key: e minor Incipit: 13555 46543 4531 Used With Text: O Come, O Come, Emmanuel

ST FRANCIS

Appears in 46 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: John Barnard (b. 1948); Sebastian Temple (1928-1997) Topics: Justice and Peace Tune Key: D Major Incipit: 33333 45353 3333 Used With Text: Make me a channel of your peace

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Peace Comes Crying (A Lament)

Author: Shirley Erena Murray Hymnal: New Hymns of Hope #187 Meter: 7.5.7.5 D Topics: Justice and Peace First Line: Peace comes crying through the world Lyrics: 1 Peace comes crying through the world, crying for her life, gunfire shatters silent skies, powers plot her grief; childrens' children march to war, wear the badge of death - peace comes crying through the world, crying for her life. 2 Violence is all we know, all we see and hear, terror strikes and stains the earth hand in hand with fear, children cradled as they die, bloodied face of war, violence is all we know all we see and hear. 3 Let your passion pierce our hearts, halt us in this storm, God whose weaponry is love, arms that will disarm! Never let the evil win, drag us to its norm, let your passion pierce our hearts, halt us in this storm! 4 Peace comes calling at our door, justice is her claim, When the fruits of peace are shared, hope and history rhyme; never let this hope be lost! Hell has had its time; peace comes calling at our door, justice is her claim. Scripture: Luke 19:41-42 Languages: English Tune Title: ROMATA

Alleluia! Alleluia! Raise the Gospel over the earth!

Author: Owen Alstott (b. 1947) Hymnal: Ancient and Modern #556 (2013) Topics: Justice and Peace First Line: Blessed those whose hearts are gentle Scripture: Matthew 5:1-12 Languages: English Tune Title: [Blessed those whose hearts are gentle]

We pray for peace

Author: Alan Gaunt (b. 1935) Hymnal: Ancient and Modern #573 (2013) Meter: 4.6.6.6.6.8 Topics: Justice and Peace Scripture: Isaiah 58:1-12 Languages: English Tune Title: HERSTMONCEUX

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Fred Kaan

1929 - 2009 Person Name: Fred Kaan (1929-2009) Topics: Justice and Peace Author of "For the healing of the nations" in Ancient and Modern Fred Kaan Hymn writer. His hymns include both original work and translations. He sought to address issues of peace and justice. He was born in Haarlem in the Netherlands in July 1929. He was baptised in St Bavo Cathedral but his family did not attend church regularly. He lived through the Nazi occupation, saw three of his grandparents die of starvation, and witnessed his parents deep involvement in the resistance movement. They took in a number of refugees. He became a pacifist and began attending church in his teens. Having become interested in British Congregationalism (later to become the United Reformed Church) through a friendship, he was attended Western College in Bristol. He was ordained in 1955 at the Windsor Road Congregational Church in Barry, Glamorgan. In 1963 he was called to be minister of the Pilgrim Church in Plymouth. It was in this congregation that he began to write hymns. The first edition of Pilgrim Praise was published in 1968, going into second and third editions in 1972 and 1975. He continued writing many more hymns throughout his life. Dianne Shapiro, from obituary written by Keith Forecast in Independent (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/fred-kaan-minister-and-celebrated-hymn-writer-1809481.html)

Ernest Warburton Shurtleff

1862 - 1917 Person Name: Ernest W. Shurtleff Topics: Justice and Peace Author of "Lead On Eternal Sovereign" in The New Century Hymnal Before studying at Andover, Ernest W. Shurtleff (Boston, MA, 1862; d. Paris, France, 1917) attended Harvard University. He served Congregational churches in Ventura, California; Old Plymouth, Massachusetts; and Minneapolis, Minnesota, before moving to Europe. In 1905 he established the American Church in Frankfurt, and in 1906 he moved to Paris, where he was involved in student ministry at the Academy Vitti. During World War I he and his wife were active in refugee relief work in Paris. Shurtleff wrote a number of books, including Poems (1883), Easter Gleams (1885), Song of Hope (1886), and Song on the Waters (1913). Bert Polman =============== Shurtleff, Ernest Warburton, b. at Boston, Mass., April 4, 1862, and educated at Boston Latin School, Harvard University, and Andover Theo. Seminary (1887). Entering the Congregational Ministry, he was Pastor at Palmer and Plymouth, Mass., and is now (1905) Minister of First Church, Minneapolis, Minn. His works include Poems, 1883, Easter Gleams, 1883, and others. His hymn, "Lead on, O King Eternal" (Christian Warfare), was written as a parting hymn to his class of fellow students at Andover, and was included in Hymns of the Faith, Boston, 1887. It has since appeared in several collections. [M. C. Hazard, Ph.D]. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

Brian A. Wren

b. 1936 Person Name: Brian Wren (b. 1936) Topics: Justice and Peace Author of "Christ is alive! Let Christians sing" in Ancient and Modern Brian Wren (b. Romford, Essex, England, 1936) is a major British figure in the revival of contemporary hymn writing. He studied French literature at New College and theology at Mansfield College in Oxford, England. Ordained in 1965, he was pastor of the Congregational Church (now United Reformed) in Hockley and Hawkwell, Essex, from 1965 to 1970. He worked for the British Council of Churches and several other organizations involved in fighting poverty and promoting peace and justice. This work resulted in his writing of Education for Justice (1977) and Patriotism and Peace (1983). With a ministry throughout the English-speaking world, Wren now resides in the United States where he is active as a freelance lecturer, preacher, and full-time hymn writer. His hymn texts are published in Faith Looking Forward (1983), Praising a Mystery (1986), Bring Many Names (1989), New Beginnings (1993), and Faith Renewed: 33 Hymns Reissued and Revised (1995), as well as in many modern hymnals. He has also produced What Language Shall I Borrow? (1989), a discussion guide to inclusive language in Christian worship. Bert Polman

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