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A voice from heaven we have heard

Author: Irving Clinton Tomlinson

Tomlinson, Irving Clinton. (Perry, New York, 1860--1944). Graduated from Buchtel College, Akron, Ohio, B.A., 1880; M.A., 1883; and Tufts Divinity School, B.D., 1888. From 1889 to 1896 he was pastor of the First Universalist Church, Saugus, Massachusetts, and a social worker in the Boston area. From 1899 to 1940 he was a Christian Science practitioner, teacher, and lecturer. He was the author of Twelve Years with Mary Baker Eddy (1945). --Joan E. Wilson, DNAH Archives Go to person page >

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First Line: A voice from heaven we have heard
Author: Irving Clinton Tomlinson

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FOREST GREEN

FOREST GREEN is an English folk tune associated with the ballad "The Ploughboy's Dream." Ralph Vaughan Williams (PHH 316) turned FOREST GREEN into a hymn tune for The English Hymnal (1906), using it as a setting for "O Little Town of Bethlehem." Shaped in rounded bar form (AABA), FOREST GREEN has th…

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Christian Science Hymnal (Rev. and enl.) #5

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