Our Savior Christ Once Knelt in Prayer

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Our Savior Christ once knelt in prayer

Author: Timothy Dudley-Smith
Tune: DAS NEUGEBORNE KINDELEIN
Published in 2 hymnals

Piano/Organ
	Reflections on the Holy Spirit (Hymns of…

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Author: Timothy Dudley-Smith

Timothy Dudley-Smith (b. 1926) Educated at Pembroke College and Ridley Hall, Cambridge, Dudley-Smith has served the Church of England since his ordination in 1950. He has occupied a number of church positions, including parish priest in the diocese of Southwark (1953-1962), archdeacon of Norwich (1973-1981), and bishop of Thetford, Norfolk, from 1981 until his retirement in 1992. He also edited a Christian magazine, Crusade, which was founded after Billy Graham's 1955 London crusade. Dudley-Smith began writing comic verse while a student at Cambridge; he did not begin to write hymns until the 1960s. Many of his several hundred hymn texts have been collected in Lift Every Heart: Collected Hymns 1961-1983 (1984), Songs of Deliverance: Thirt… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Our Savior Christ once knelt in prayer
Title:	Our Savior Christ Once Knelt in Prayer
Author:	Timothy Dudley-Smith
Source:	A House of Praise (Hope Publishing Company,, 2003)
Language:	English

Mark 9:10
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DAS NEUGEBORNE KINDELEIN

Also known as JENA, DAS NEUGEBORNE KINDELEIN was originally a chorale melody for Cyriacus Schneegass' text "Das neugeborne Kindelein." Composed by Melchior Vulpius (PHH 397) and published in his Ein Schön Geistlich Gesangbuch (Jena, 1609), the tune was introduced to English congregations primarily…

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