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BINNEY'S

Meter: 8.6.8.8.6 Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Eric H. Thiman Tune Key: e minor Used With Text: How Long, O Lord?

Author: Barbara Woollett Meter: 8.6.8.8.6 Appears in 14 hymnals First Line: How long, O Lord, will you forget Lyrics: 1 How long, O Lord, will you forget an answer to my prayer? No tokens of your love I see, your face is turned away from me; I wrestle with despair! 2 How long, O Lord, will you forsake and leave me in this way? When will you come to my relief? My heart is overwhelmed with grief, by evil night and day! 3 How long, O Lord? But you forgive with mercy from above. I find that all your ways are just; I learn to praise you and to trust in your unfailing love! Topics: Affliction and Tribulation; God Justice; God Mercy; Lenten Season; Love God’s Love for Us; Prayer; Psalms; Trust Scripture: Psalm 13:1 Used With Tune: BINNEY'S

O Master Christ, draw near to take

Author: David Mowbray (born 1938) Meter: 8.6.8.8.6 Appears in 3 hymnals Lyrics: 1 O Master Christ, draw near to take your undisputed place; my gifts and faculties remake, form and re-fashion for your sake an instrument of peace. 2 O Master Christ, I choose to sow in place of hatred, love; where wounds and injuries are now may healing and forgiveness grow as gifts from God above. 3 O Master Christ, I choose to plant hope where there is despair; a warmth of joy, a shaft of light where darkness has diminished sight, where sorrow leaves its scar. 4 O Master Christ, make this my goal — less to receive than give; to sympathise - and to make whole, to understand and to console and so, through death, to live. Topics: God's Church Commitment and Character; Pentecost 18 The Offering of Life; Pentecost 4 The Church's Mission to the Individual Used With Tune: BINNEY'S Text Sources: from the traditional prayer

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How Long, O Lord?

Author: Barbara Woollett Hymnal: The Worshiping Church #339 (1990) Meter: 8.6.8.8.6 First Line: How long, O Lord, will you forget Lyrics: 1 How long, O Lord, will you forget an answer to my prayer? No tokens of your love I see, your face is turned away from me; I wrestle with despair! 2 How long, O Lord, will you forsake and leave me in this way? When will you come to my relief? My heart is overwhelmed with grief, by evil night and day! 3 How long, O Lord? But you forgive with mercy from above. I find that all your ways are just; I learn to praise you and to trust in your unfailing love! Topics: Affliction and Tribulation; God Justice; God Mercy; Lenten Season; Love God’s Love for Us; Prayer; Psalms; Trust Scripture: Psalm 13:1 Languages: English Tune Title: BINNEY'S

O Master Christ, draw near to take

Author: David Mowbray (born 1938) Hymnal: Hymns for Today's Church (2nd ed.) #553a (1987) Meter: 8.6.8.8.6 Lyrics: 1 O Master Christ, draw near to take your undisputed place; my gifts and faculties remake, form and re-fashion for your sake an instrument of peace. 2 O Master Christ, I choose to sow in place of hatred, love; where wounds and injuries are now may healing and forgiveness grow as gifts from God above. 3 O Master Christ, I choose to plant hope where there is despair; a warmth of joy, a shaft of light where darkness has diminished sight, where sorrow leaves its scar. 4 O Master Christ, make this my goal — less to receive than give; to sympathise - and to make whole, to understand and to console and so, through death, to live. Topics: God's Church Commitment and Character; Pentecost 18 The Offering of Life; Pentecost 4 The Church's Mission to the Individual Languages: English Tune Title: BINNEY'S

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David Mowbray

b. 1938 Person Name: David Mowbray (born 1938) Adapter of "O Master Christ, draw near to take" in Hymns for Today's Church (2nd ed.) David Mowbray (b. 1938) was born in Wallington, Surrey, England. He attended Dulwich College, Fitzwilliam, Cambridge where he read English. He gained an MA at Trinity in Bristol and a BD at London (External). Ordained in the Church of England, he was a curate at St. Giles in Northampton and at St. Mary's in Walford. Appointed Vicar of Broxborne, Herts in 1970 in 1984, he became Vicar of All Saints, Hertfordshire. In 1991 he became Vicar of St. Matthew's Darley Abbey, Derby, where he serves to this day. He has been writing hymns since 1977 and most of his texts are represented by Jubilate Hymns. Three of his hymn texts have been included in Hope's new hymnal Worship & Rejoice (2001). --www.hopepublishing.com

Eric H. Thiman

1900 - 1975 Composer of "BINNEY'S" in The Worshiping Church b. 9-12-1900, Ashford, Kent, d. 2-13-75, London; music educator, organist, and composer

Barbara Woollett

b. 1937 Paraphraser of "How Long, O Lord?" in The Worshiping Church Barbara Woollett-- Born on 30 January 1937 in Southampton, where she has lived ever since. Educated at Sholing Secondary School for Girls; married David Woollett, an engineer; they have three children and six grandchildren. She has been a full-time housewife and mother, a volunteer ward assistant in a large city hospital, and a mature student for a GCSE in Drama, as well as being active in a local amateur dramatic group. She is a member of the Jubilate Group. She has written several hymn texts, Psalm versions and other verses. Publications featuring her work include Church Family Worship (1988); Come, Rejoice (1989); Songs from the Psalms (1990); Psalms for Today (1990) which has four of her paraphrases; "Let's Praise" 2 (1994); "Sing Glory" (1999); and "Praise!" (2000). Appearing in several books are her versions of Psalm 13, "How long, O Lord, will your forget an answer to my prayer"; and Psalm 84, "How lovely is your dwelling-place, O Lord most high". Among North American hymnals, The Worshiping Church (1990) has three of her texts and Worship and Rejoice (2001) has two, all of these from the Psalms. --www.jubilate.co.uk/about