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Text:O God of truth, whose living word
Author:Thomas Hughes
Tune:NOX PRAECESSIT
Composer:J. Baptiste Calkin

553b. O God of truth, whose living word

Text Information
First Line: O God of truth, whose living word
Author: Thomas Hughes (1859)
Meter: C.M.
Publication Date: 1939
Topic: Christian Character
Notes: Alternative tune, MARTYRDOM, No. 429.
Tune Information
Name: NOX PRAECESSIT
Composer: J. Baptiste Calkin (1875)
Meter: C.M.
Key: G Major
Copyright: By permission of J.F. Shaw & Co.
Notes: Now Public Domain



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