Fire of God, Thou Sacred Flame

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Author: Albert F. Bayly

Albert F. Bayly was born on September 6, 1901, Bexhill on Sea, Sussex, England. He received his education at London University (BA) and Mansfield College, Oxford. Bayly was a Congregationalist (later United Reformed Church) minister from the late 1920s until his death in 1984. His life and ministry spanned the Depression of the 1930s, the Second World War, and the years of reconstruction which followed. After retiring in 1971, he moved to Springfield, Chelmsford, and was active in the local United Reformed Church. He wrote several pageants on mission themes, and librettos for cantatas by W. L. Lloyd Webber. He died on July 26, 1984 in Chichester, Sussex, England. NN,… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Fire of God, thou sacred flame
Title:	Fire of God, Thou Sacred Flame
Author:	Albert F. Bayly (1947)
Meter:	7.7.7.7
Language:	English
Copyright:	© Oxford University Press; © Oxford University Press, 1988

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