One World

One world this, for all its sorrow

Author: Vincent B. Silliman
Tune: SAVANNA
Published in 3 hymnals

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Author: Vincent B. Silliman

Silliman, Rev. Vincent Brown, D.D. (Hudson, Wisconsin, June 29, 1894-Feb. 1979, Yarmouth, Maine). He graduated from Meadville Theological School in 1920 and from the University of Minnesota in 1925. He served Unitarian churches in Buffalo, New York; Portland, Maine; Hollis, N.Y.; and Chicago, Illinois. He was a member of the committee which edited The Beacon Song and Service Book for Children and Young People (1935), and edited We Sing of Life (1955), an unusual collection of songs for children and young people, with a strong ethical emphasis, some set to familiar hymn tunes, others to interesting folk music. Mr. Silliman contributed to words of several songs. One of them, beginning "Morning, so fair to see" is also included in Hymns of the… Go to person page >

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First Line: One world this, for all its sorrow
Title: One World
Author: Vincent B. Silliman
Meter: 8.8.8.8 D
Language: English
Copyright: © 1955 American Ethical Union

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Singing the Living Tradition #133

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