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Bless the Lord, My Soul and Being

Bless the Lord, my soul and being!

Author: Fred R. Anderson (1986)
Tune: RUSTINGTON
ONE LICENSE: 104CCW21
Published in 3 hymnals

Audio files: Recording
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Author: Fred R. Anderson

FRED R. ANDERSON is pastor emeritus of Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York City, a liturgical theologian, and a recognized hymn writer whose hymn and psalm texts appear in Protestant and Catholic hymnals around the world. —Singing God's Psalms (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2016) His collections of psalm paraphrases include Singing Psalms of Joy and Praise (1986) and Singing God's Psalms (2016). Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: Bless the Lord, my soul and being!
Title: Bless the Lord, My Soul and Being
Author: Fred R. Anderson (1986)
Meter: 8.7.8.7 D
Language: English
Copyright: © 1986 Fred R. Anderson

Tune

RUSTINGTON

C. Hubert H. Parry's (PHH 145) RUSTINGTON was first published in the Westminster Abbey Hymn Book (1897) as a setting for Benjamin Webb's "Praise the Rock of Our Salvation." The tune is named for the village in Sussex, England, where Parry lived for some years and where he died. This is such a distin…

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Timeline

Instances

Instances (1 - 3 of 3)

Christian Worship #104C

Text InfoAudio

Glory to God #34

The Presbyterian Hymnal #224

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