To God Who Gave the Scriptures

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To God who gave the scriptures

Author: Timothy Dudley-Smith (b. 1926)
Tune: NYLAND
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Source: Moravian Book of Worship #508

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Author: Timothy Dudley-Smith (b. 1926)

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:	To God who gave the scriptures
Title:	To God Who Gave the Scriptures
Author:	Timothy Dudley-Smith (b. 1926)
Meter:	7.6.7.6 D
Language:	English
Copyright:	© 1993 by Hope Publishing Company. All rights reserved. Used by permission.

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NYLAND

NYLAND, named for a province in Finland, is a folk melody from Kuortane, South Ostrobothnia, Finland. In fact, the tune is also known as KUORTANE. NYLAND was first published with a hymn text in an appendix to the 1909 edition of the Finnish Suomen Evankelis Luterilaisen Kirken Koraalikirja. It gaine…

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