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MARSH CHAPEL

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 8 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Max Miller Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 51154 31243 12355 Used With Text: Behold a Broken World

Awake, O sleeper, rise from death

Author: F. Bland Tucker, 1895-1984 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 14 hymnals Topics: Christian Vocation and Pilgrimage Used With Tune: MARSH CHAPEL

Author: Timothy Dudley-Smith Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 5 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Behold a broken world, we pray, where want and war increase, and grant us, Lord, in this our day, the ancient dream of peace: 2 A dream of swords to sickles bent, of spears to scythe and spade, the weapons of our warfare spent, a world of peace remade; 3 Where every battle flag is furled and every trumpet stilled, where wars shall cease in all the world, a waking dream fulfilled. 4 No force of arms shall there prevail nor justice cease its sway; nor shall their loftiest visions fail the dreamers of the day. 5 O Prince of Peace, who died to save, a lost world to redeem, and rose in triumph from the grave, behold our waking dream. 6 Bring, Lord, your better world to birth, your kingdom, love's domain, where peace with God, and peace on earth, and peace eternal reign. Topics: Sanctifiying and Perfecting Grace Social Holiness; Justice; Kingdom of God; Peace, World Scripture: Isaiah 2:1-4 Used With Tune: MARSH CHAPEL

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Awake, O Sleeper, Rise from Death

Author: F. Bland Tucker (1895-1984) Hymnal: Common Praise (1998) #115 (1998) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Topics: Advent; Unity (church) Scripture: Romans 13:8-14 Languages: English Tune Title: MARSH CHAPEL

[Behold a broken world]

Hymnal: The United Methodist Hymnal Music Supplement II #115 (1993) Tune Title: MARSH CHAPEL

Behold a Broken World

Author: Timothy Dudley-Smith Hymnal: The United Methodist Hymnal #426 (1989) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Lyrics: 1 Behold a broken world, we pray, where want and war increase, and grant us, Lord, in this our day, the ancient dream of peace: 2 A dream of swords to sickles bent, of spears to scythe and spade, the weapons of our warfare spent, a world of peace remade; 3 Where every battle flag is furled and every trumpet stilled, where wars shall cease in all the world, a waking dream fulfilled. 4 No force of arms shall there prevail nor justice cease its sway; nor shall their loftiest visions fail the dreamers of the day. 5 O Prince of Peace, who died to save, a lost world to redeem, and rose in triumph from the grave, behold our waking dream. 6 Bring, Lord, your better world to birth, your kingdom, love's domain, where peace with God, and peace on earth, and peace eternal reign. Topics: Sanctifiying and Perfecting Grace Social Holiness; Justice; Kingdom of God; Peace, World Scripture: Isaiah 2:1-4 Languages: English Tune Title: MARSH CHAPEL

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Bland Tucker

1895 - 1984 Person Name: F. Bland Tucker Author of "Awake, O Sleeper" in The United Methodist Hymnal Francis Bland Tucker (born Norfolk, Virginia, January 6, 1895). The son of a bishop and brother of a Presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, he was educated at the University of Virginia, B.A., 1914, and at Virginia Theological Seminary, B.D., 1920; D.D., 1944. He was ordained deacon in 1918, priest in 1920, after having served as a private in Evacuation Hospital No.15 of the American Expeditionary Forces in France during World War I. His first charge was as a rector of Grammer Parish, Brunswick County, in southern Virginia. From 1925 to 1945, he was rector of historic St. John's Church, Georgetown, Washington, D.C. Then until retirement in 1967 he was rector of John Wesley's parish in Georgia, old Christ Church, Savannah. In "Reflections of a Hymn Writer" (The Hymn 30.2, April 1979, pp.115–116), he speaks of never having a thought of writing a hymn until he was named a member of the Joint Commission on the Revision of the Hymnal in 1937 which prepared the Hymnal 1940

Timothy Dudley-Smith

1926 - 2024 Author of "Behold a Broken World" in The United Methodist Hymnal 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