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MORPETH

Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Cyril Taylor Tune Key: G Major

Facing a task unfinished

Author: Frank Houghton, 1894-1972 Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 10 hymnals Topics: The Church Worldwide Missions Used With Tune: MORPETH

The earth, the sky, the oceans

Author: Fred Kaan, b.1929 Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 2 hymnals Topics: The Church Stewardship Used With Tune: MORPETH

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The earth, the sky, the oceans

Author: Fred Kaan, b.1929 Hymnal: The Book of Praise #363 (1972) Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Topics: The Church Stewardship Languages: English Tune Title: MORPETH

Facing a task unfinished

Author: Frank Houghton, 1894-1972 Hymnal: The Book of Praise #386 (1972) Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Topics: The Church Worldwide Missions Languages: English Tune Title: MORPETH

1894 - 1972 Person Name: Frank Houghton, 1894-1972 Author of "Facing a task unfinished" in The Book of Praise Born: April 24, 1894, Stafford, Staffordshire, England. Died: January 25, 1972, Cornford House, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England. Buried: Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England. Son of Thomas Houghton, Curate of Stafford, Frank attended the University of London (BA 1913) London College of Divinity (now St. John’s College, Nottingham, graduated 1914). He was ordained a deacon in 1917, and priest the next year. He served as Curate of St. Benedict’s, Liverpool (1917-9); All Saints, Preston (1919-20). Inspired by missionary Hudson Taylor’s example, he joined the China Inland Mission, serving at Liangshan (1920-21) and Suiting (1921-24 ). In 1923, he married Dorothy Cassels, daughter of Bishop Cassels of West China. In 1924, he became principal of the Theological College in Paoning, Sichuan. He returned to England for medical reasons in 1928, expecting to stay only a short time, but he stayed to edit China’s Millions. He also served as Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of West China (1928-36). He went on to serve as Consecrated Bishop of East Szechwan at Nanchung (1934-40); General Director of the China Inland Mission (1940-51); Vicar of New Milverton, Leamington Spa (1953-60); and Rector of St. Peter, Drayton, Oxford (1960-63). Houghton retired in 1963, and he and his wife lived in Parkstone, Poole. © The Cyber Hymnal™ (www.hymntime.com/tch)

Fred Kaan

1929 - 2009 Person Name: Fred Kaan, b.1929 Author of "The earth, the sky, the oceans" in The Book of Praise 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)

Cyril Taylor

1907 - 1991 Person Name: Cyril V. Taylor, b.1907 Composer of "MORPETH" in The Book of Praise Cyril V. Taylor (b. Wigan, Lancashire, England, 1907; d. Petersfield, England, 1991) was a chorister at Magdalen College School, Oxford, and studied at Christ Church, Oxford, and Westcott House, Cambridge. Ordained a priest in the Church of England in 1932, he served the church as both pastor and musician. His positions included being a producer in the religious broadcasting department of the BBC (1939-1953), chaplain of the Royal School of Church Music (1953-1958), vicar of Cerne Abbas in Dorsetshire (1958-1969), and precentor of Salisbury Cathedral (1969-1975). He contributed twenty hymn tunes to the BBC Hymn Book (1951), which he edited, and other tunes to the Methodist Hymns and Psalms (1983). He also edited 100 Hymns for Today (1969) and More Hymns for Today (1980). Writer of the booklet Hymns for Today Discussed (1984), Taylor was chairman of the Hymn Society of Great Britain and Ireland from 1975 to 1980. Bert Polman