Like pilgrims sailing through the night

Author: Florence Harris

Harris, Florence (Mrs. Robert H. Hooke). (1891-1933). Wrote in 1907, for the tenth anniversary of Unity Church (Unitarian), Montclair, New Jersey, of which she was a member, a hymn entitled "The Founders" beginning "Like a pilgrim sailing through the night" which was included in The New Hymn and Tune Book, 1914, and in Hymns of the Spirit, 1937. --Henry Wilder Foote, DNAH Archives Go to person page >

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First Line: Like pilgrims sailing through the night
Author: Florence Harris
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

Tune

TRURO (Williams)

TRURO is an anonymous tune, first published in Thomas Williams's Psalmodia Evangelica, (second vol., 1789) as a setting for Isaac Watts' "Now to the Lord a noble song." Virtually nothing is known about this eighteenth-century British editor of the two-volume Psalmodia Evangelica, a collection of thr…

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Hymns of the Spirit for Use in the Free Churches of America #361

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Services for Congregational Worship. The New Hymn and Tune Book #407

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The Beacon Hymnal #S21

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