Baptism

Representative Text

1 Our new life is beginning;
Dear Lord, we promise thee
To always follow Jesus
And serve him faithfully.

2 Our new life is beginning'
Dear Father, may it be,
In working and in playing
A holy life with thee.

Source: Children's Hymnal #76

Author: Verda E. Bryant

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Text Information

First Line: Our new life is beginning
Title: Baptism
Author: Verda E. Bryant
Language: English

Tune

CHRISTUS, DER IST MEIN LEBEN (Vulpius)

Melchior Vulpius (PHH 397) composed this short chorale tune, published as a setting for the anonymous funeral hymn "Christus, der ist mein Leben" ("For Me to Live Is Jesus") in Vulpius's Ein Schön Geistlich Gesangbuch (1609). Johann S. Bach (PHH 7) based his Cantata 95 on this tune and provided two…

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Children's Hymnal #76

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