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Take Courage and Trust Your Creator

Author: Ruth Duck

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Text Information

First Line: Take courage and trust your Creator and Friend
Title: Take Courage and Trust Your Creator
Author: Ruth Duck
Publication Date: 1995
Copyright: Words © Copyright 1992 G.I.A. Publications, Inc., Chicago, Illinois. All rights reserved.

Tune

FOUNDATION (American)

The anonymous tune FOUNDATION first appeared in Joseph Funk's A Compilation of Genuine Church Music (1832) as a setting for this text (there it was called PROTECTION). The tune was also published with the text in Southern Harmony and Sacred Harp. The ancestors of Joseph Funk (b. Lancaster County, PA…

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