Tune: HIGHWAYS

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HIGHWAYS

Composer: Calvin Weiss Laufer (1921)
Published in 2 hymnals

Composer: Calvin Weiss Laufer

Presbyterian minister and hymnographer Calvin Weiss Laufer was born today in Brodheadsville, Pennsylvania in 1874. Following his graduation from Union Seminary in 1900 he was ordained into the Presbyterian ministry and led congregations in New York and New Jersey for several years. Laufer had a generally cheerful outlook on his Christian life, and his first two books, Key-Notes of Optimism (1911) and The Incomparable Christ (1914) expressed that viewpoint. A review of the first book spoke of the "crisp and stirring note in these sermonettes which is well calculated to rouse the mind of readers and banish dejection." His books were popular in their time but today are seen as somewhat superficial. He later began to work with the Presbyt… Go to person page >

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Tune Information

Title:	HIGHWAYS
Composer:	Calvin Weiss Laufer (1921)
Meter:	8.6.8.6 D
Incipit:	51235 63533 21176
Copyright:	Public Domain

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Texts

A thousand years have come and gone

A thousand years have come and gone,
And near a thousand more,
Since happier light from heaven shone
Than ever shone before;
And in the hearts of old and young
A joy most joyful stirred,
That sent such news from tongue to tongue
As ears had never heard.

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I would not climb with earth-bound feet

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