Tune: BE THOU EXALTED

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BE THOU EXALTED

Composer: Alfred B. Smith
Published in 3 hymnals

Composer: Alfred B. Smith

Used pseudonym B. C. Laurelton ---------- In 1930, he began playing on radio broadcasts in Jersey City, New Jersey, on "The Old Fashioned Gospel Hour." After meeting Wendell P. Loveless, Alfred enrolled at the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago and became a member of the WMBI staff. During service as Minister of Music at The Church of the Open Door in Philadelphia, he taught at The Philadelphia School of the Bible in the fall of 1938. During that year, he wrote "For God So Loved the World" after visiting the ninety-four year-old hymn writer George C. Stebbins. Smith met Billy Graham when they were both students at Wheaton College. During their long collaboration, they founded Singspiration in 1941. After graduating from Whea… Go to person page >

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Tune Information

Title:	BE THOU EXALTED
Composer:	Alfred B. Smith
Meter:	11.11.11.11 with refrain
Incipit:	33211 33213 22217
Key:	E♭ Major
Copyright:	© 1969, 1972, and 1978 by Alfred B. Smith

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Be Thou Exalted

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Organ Solo

The Organist Volume 82 Number 1 March 1978: A Bi-Monthly Publication for Church Organists
Composer/Editors Roger C. Wilson; Chester Nordman
Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (1978) pp. 52
The Organist Volume 82 Number 4 September 1978: A Bi-Monthly Publication for Church Organists
Composer/Editors Lani Smith; Edward H. Wetherill
Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (1978) pp. 22
The Organist Volume 77 Number 2 May 1973: A Bi-Monthly Publication for Church Organists
Composer/Editors Roger C. Wilson; Chester Nordman
Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (1973) pp. 15