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Isaiah Gave the Promise

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Author: John Core

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Text Information

First Line: Isaiah gave the promise
Title: Isaiah Gave the Promise
Author: John Core
Language: English
Copyright: Scripture adapt. © 2005 John Core

Tune

LANCASHIRE (Smart)

Henry T. Smart (PHH 233) composed the tune in 1835 for use at a missions festival at Blackburn, Lancashire, England. For that festival, which celebrated the three-hundredth anniversary of the Reformation in England, the tune was set to Reginald Heber's (PHH 249) “From Greenland's Icy Mountains.”…

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