Jesus, Life of All the World

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Source: The Book of Praise #776
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Author: E. Margaret Clarkson

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First Line: Jesus, life of all the world
Title: Jesus, Life of All the World
Author: E. Margaret Clarkson (1983)
Meter: 7.8.7.8.7.7
Language: English
Copyright: © 1983 by Hymn Society. Used by permission of Hope Publishing Company.

Tune

GROSSER GOTT (11171)

Also known as: FRAMINGHAM GROSSNER GROSSER GOTT HALLE HUNGARIAN MELODY LAUDAMUS PARIS PASCHAL STILLORGAN GROSSER GOTT was set to the German versification in the Katholisches Gesangbuch (see above). Variants of the tune abound; the version found in the Psalter Hymnal came from Johann Schicht's Allg…

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JESUS, MEINE ZUVERSICHT (Crüger)

First published in Johann Crüger's Praxis Pietatis Melica (1653) without attribution, JESUS, MEINE ZUVERSICHT was credited to Crüger (PHH 42) in the 1668 edition of that hymnal. (The later isorhythmic RATISBON is related to this tune; see 34.) JESUS, MEINE ZUVERSICHT is named for its association w…

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