Precious volume what thou doest

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Precious volume what thou doest

Author: Thomas Kelly
Tune: RATHBUN
Published in 4 hymnals

Piano/Organ
	Hymn Miniatures for Communion (Sixty-Sec…

Instrumental
	BRASS ACCOMPANIMENTS FOR HYMNSINGING

Handbells
	The Cross, The Grave, The Skies! (Reprod…

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Author: Thomas Kelly

Kelly, Thomas, B.A., son of Thomas Kelly, a Judge of the Irish Court of Common Pleas, was born in Dublin, July 13, 1769, and educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He was designed for the Bar, and entered the Temple, London, with that intention; but having undergone a very marked spiritual change he took Holy Orders in 1792. His earnest evangelical preaching in Dublin led Archbishop Fowler to inhibit him and his companion preacher, Rowland Hill, from preaching in the city. For some time he preached in two unconsecrated buildings in Dublin, Plunket Street, and the Bethesda, and then, having seceded from the Established Church, he erected places of worship at Athy, Portarlington, Wexford, &c, in which he conducted divine worship and preached. H… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Precious volume what thou doest
Author:	Thomas Kelly
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

Psalm 119:172
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RATHBUN

This story is associated with the writing of RATHBUN: One Sunday in 1849 Ithamar Conkey (b. Shutesbury, MA, 1815; d. Elizabeth, NJ, 1867) walked out of the morning service at Central Baptist Church, Norwich, Connecticut, where he was choir director and organist, frustrated because only one soprano f…

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