God send us men of steadfast will

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God send us men of steadfast will

Author: Frederick J. Gillman (1909)
Tune: DUKE STREET
Published in 2 hymnals

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Representative Text

1 God send us men whose aim 'twill be,
Not to defend some ancient creed
But to live out the laws of right
In ev'ry thought and word and deed.

2 God send us men alert and quick
His lofty precepts to translate
Until the laws of right become
The laws and habits of the state.

3 God send us men of steadfast will,
Patient, courageous, strong, and true,
With vision clear and mind equipped
His will to learn, his work to do.

4 God send us men with hearts abalze,
All truth to love, all wrong to hate;
These are the patriots nations need;
These are the bulwarks of the state.

Source: Hymns of the Restoration #99

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Author: Frederick J. Gillman

Born: February 25, 1866, Devizes, Wiltshire, England. Died: February 18, 1949, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England. Raised in the Congregationalist denomination, Gilman helped edit the 1909 & 1933 Fellowship Hymn-Book from the National Adult School Union and the Brotherhood Movement. His other works include: Songs and Singers of Christendom, 1911 The Story of Our Hymns, 1921 The Evolution of the English Hymn (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1927) --www.hymntime.com/tch/ Go to person page >

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First Line:	God send us men of steadfast will
Author:	Frederick J. Gillman (1909)
Language:	English

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Tune

DUKE STREET

First published anonymously in Henry Boyd's Select Collection of Psalm and Hymn Tunes (1793), DUKE STREET was credited to John Hatton (b. Warrington, England, c. 1710; d, St. Helen's, Lancaster, England, 1793) in William Dixon's Euphonia (1805). Virtually nothing is known about Hatton, its composer,…

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