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Author: Shirley Erena Murray, 1931- Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 2 hymnals Matching Instances: 2 Lyrics: 1 Great God of earth and heaven whose Spirit is our breath, at Christmas-time born human, at Easter shared our death; all-generous, all loving, in whom all beauty thrives - forgive your sons and daughters the comfort of our lives. 2 While refugees go homeless and die before they live, while children have no future - our apathy forgive! Where hope fades to depression, despair erodes the soul, restore in us a passion to make the broken whole. 3 Where hunger kills your people, injustice cries aloud, while weapons grow more lethal and only power stands proud - God of our flesh and fiber, whose mercy does not cease, implant your mind within us, create a world for peace! Topics: General Hymns The Christian Life Used With Tune: AURELIA

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KING'S LYNN

Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 61 hymnals Matching Instances: 1 Composer and/or Arranger: Ralph Vaughan Williams Tune Sources: Arr. The English Hymnal, 1906 Tune Key: d minor Incipit: 54512 34765 43171 Used With Text: Great God of Earth and Heaven

AURELIA

Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 1,039 hymnals Matching Instances: 1 Composer and/or Arranger: Samuel Sebastian Wesley, 1810-1876 Tune Key: D Major Incipit: 33343 32116 54345 Used With Text: Great God of earth and heaven

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Great God of Earth and Heaven

Author: Shirley Erena Murray Hymnal: The New Century Hymnal #579 (1995) Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Lyrics: 1 Great God of earth and heaven whose Spirit is our breath, at Christmastime born human, at Easter shared our death: All-generous, all-loving, in whom all beauty thrives - forgive your sons and daughters the comfort of our lives! 2 While refugees go homeless and die before they live, while children have no future - our apathy forgive! Where hope fades to depression, despair erodes the soul, restore in us a passion to make the broken whole. 3 Where hunger kills your people, injustice cries aloud, while weapons grow more lethal and only power stands proud - God of our flesh and fiber, whose mercy does not cease, implant your mind within us, create a world for peace! Topics: Children; Forgiveness of Sin; Justice and Peace; Peace World; Year B Advent 2 Languages: English Tune Title: KING'S LYNN

Great God of earth and heaven

Author: Shirley Erena Murray, 1931- Hymnal: CPWI Hymnal #560 (2010) Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Lyrics: 1 Great God of earth and heaven whose Spirit is our breath, at Christmas-time born human, at Easter shared our death; all-generous, all loving, in whom all beauty thrives - forgive your sons and daughters the comfort of our lives. 2 While refugees go homeless and die before they live, while children have no future - our apathy forgive! Where hope fades to depression, despair erodes the soul, restore in us a passion to make the broken whole. 3 Where hunger kills your people, injustice cries aloud, while weapons grow more lethal and only power stands proud - God of our flesh and fiber, whose mercy does not cease, implant your mind within us, create a world for peace! Topics: General Hymns The Christian Life Languages: English Tune Title: AURELIA

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Shirley Erena Murray

1931 - 2020 Person Name: Shirley Erena Murray, 1931- Author of "Great God of earth and heaven" in CPWI Hymnal Shirley Erena Murray (b. Invercargill, New Zealand, 1931) studied music as an undergraduate but received a master’s degree (with honors) in classics and French from Otago University. Her upbringing was Methodist, but she became a Presbyterian when she married the Reverend John Stewart Murray, who was a moderator of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand. Shirley began her career as a teacher of languages, but she became more active in Amnesty International, and for eight years she served the Labor Party Research Unit of Parliament. Her involvement in these organizations has enriched her writing of hymns, which address human rights, women’s concerns, justice, peace, the integrity of creation, and the unity of the church. Many of her hymns have been performed in CCA and WCC assemblies. In recognition for her service as a writer of hymns, the New Zealand government honored her as a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit on the Queen’s birthday on 3 June 2001. Through Hope Publishing House, Murray has published three collections of her hymns: In Every Corner Sing (eighty-four hymns, 1992), Everyday in Your Spirit (forty-one hymns, 1996), and Faith Makes the Song (fifty hymns, 2002). The New Zealand Hymnbook Trust, for which she worked for a long time, has also published many of her texts (cf. back cover, Faith Makes the Song). In 2009, Otaga University conferred on her an honorary doctorate in literature for her contribution to the art of hymn writing. I-to Loh, Hymnal Companion to “Sound the Bamboo”: Asian Hymns in Their Cultural and Liturgical Context, p. 468, ©2011 GIA Publications, Inc., Chicago

Ralph Vaughan Williams

1872 - 1958 Arranger of "KING'S LYNN" in The New Century Hymnal Through his composing, conducting, collecting, editing, and teaching, Ralph Vaughan Williams (b. Down Ampney, Gloucestershire, England, October 12, 1872; d. Westminster, London, England, August 26, 1958) became the chief figure in the realm of English music and church music in the first half of the twentieth century. His education included instruction at the Royal College of Music in London and Trinity College, Cambridge, as well as additional studies in Berlin and Paris. During World War I he served in the army medical corps in France. Vaughan Williams taught music at the Royal College of Music (1920-1940), conducted the Bach Choir in London (1920-1927), and directed the Leith Hill Music Festival in Dorking (1905-1953). A major influence in his life was the English folk song. A knowledgeable collector of folk songs, he was also a member of the Folksong Society and a supporter of the English Folk Dance Society. Vaughan Williams wrote various articles and books, including National Music (1935), and composed numerous arrangements of folk songs; many of his compositions show the impact of folk rhythms and melodic modes. His original compositions cover nearly all musical genres, from orchestral symphonies and concertos to choral works, from songs to operas, and from chamber music to music for films. Vaughan Williams's church music includes anthems; choral-orchestral works, such as Magnificat (1932), Dona Nobis Pacem (1936), and Hodie (1953); and hymn tune settings for organ. But most important to the history of hymnody, he was music editor of the most influential British hymnal at the beginning of the twentieth century, The English Hymnal (1906), and coeditor (with Martin Shaw) of Songs of Praise (1925, 1931) and the Oxford Book of Carols (1928). Bert Polman

Samuel Sebastian Wesley

1810 - 1876 Person Name: Samuel Sebastian Wesley, 1810-1876 Composer of "AURELIA" in CPWI Hymnal Samuel Sebastian Wesley (b. London, England, 1810; d. Gloucester, England, 1876) was an English organist and composer. The grandson of Charles Wesley, he was born in London, and sang in the choir of the Chapel Royal as a boy. He learned composition and organ from his father, Samuel, completed a doctorate in music at Oxford, and composed for piano, organ, and choir. He was organist at Hereford Cathedral (1832-1835), Exeter Cathedral (1835-1842), Leeds Parish Church (1842-1849), Winchester Cathedral (1849-1865), and Gloucester Cathedral (1865-1876). Wesley strove to improve the standards of church music and the status of church musicians; his observations and plans for reform were published as A Few Words on Cathedral Music and the Music System of the Church (1849). He was the musical editor of Charles Kemble's A Selection of Psalms and Hymns (1864) and of the Wellburn Appendix of Original Hymns and Tunes (1875) but is best known as the compiler of The European Psalmist (1872), in which some 130 of the 733 hymn tunes were written by him. Bert Polman