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As comes the breath of spring

Author: David Lake Ritchie Appears in 11 hymnals Used With Tune: GODFREY

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DENBY

Meter: 6.6.6.6 D Appears in 25 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Charles J. Dale Tune Key: D Major Incipit: 56512 33432 67565 Used With Text: As Comes The Breath Of Spring

GODFREY

Appears in 7 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: John A. West Incipit: 53123 56176 53512 Used With Text: As comes the breath of spring
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HAWARDEN

Appears in 16 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Samuel S. Wesley (1810-1876) Incipit: 51776 55123 21517 Used With Text: As comes the breath of spring

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As Comes The Breath Of Spring

Author: David Lakie Ritchie Hymnal: Voices United #373 (1996) Meter: 6.6.6.6 D Lyrics: 1 As comes the breath of spring with light and mirth and song, so does your Spirit bring new days brave, free, and strong. You come with thrill of life to chase hence winter's breath, to hush to peace the strife of sin that ends in death. 2 You come like dawning day with flaming truth and love, to chase all glooms away, to brace our wills to prove how wise, how good to choose the truth and its brave fight, to prize it, win or lose, and live on your delight. 3 You come like songs at morn that fill the earth with joy, till we, in Christ, newborn, new strength in praise employ. You come to rouse the heart from drifting to despair, through high hopes to impart life with an ampler air. 4 You breathe and there is health; you move and there is power; you whisper, there is wealth of love, your richest dower. Your presence is to us like summer in the soul; your joy shines forth and then life blossoms to its goal. Topics: Holy Spirit Praise and Invocation; Healing; Holy Spirit; Hope; Inspiration; Joy; Morning; Music and Singing; Peace (Inner, Calmness, Serenity; Regeneration; Rogation; Seasons Changing; Truth; Venture; Wholeness; Easter 7 Year A; Proper 17 Year B; Easter 2 Year C; Easter 6 Year C Tune Title: DENBY
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As comes the breath of spring

Author: David Lakie Ritchie, 1865-1951 Hymnal: The Book of Praise #396 (1997) Meter: 6.6.6.6 D Lyrics: 1 As comes the breath of spring, with light and mirth and song, so does your Spirit bring new days brave, free and strong. You come with thrill of life to chase hence winter's breath, to hush to peace the strife of sin that ends in death. 2 You come like dawning day, with flaming truth and love, to chase all glooms away, to brace our wills to prove how wise, how good to choose the truth and its brave fight; to prize it, win or lose, and live on God's delight. 3 You come like songs at morn that fill the earth with joy, till we in Christ newborn new strength in praise employ. You come to rouse the heart from drifting to despair, through high hope to impart life with an ampler air. 4 You breathe, and there is health; you move, and there is power; you whisper, there is wealth of love, your richest dower. Your presence is to us like summer in the soul; your joy shines forth, and then life blossoms to its goal. Topics: God the Holy Spirit; Healing / Health; Hope; Joy; Love; Truth Languages: English Tune Title: DENBY

As comes the breath of spring

Author: David Lakie Ritchie Hymnal: The Hymnary of the United Church of Canada #151 (1930) Meter: 6.6.6.6 D Languages: English Tune Title: DENBY

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John A. West

Composer of "GODFREY" in The New Hymnal for American Youth

Samuel Sebastian Wesley

1810 - 1876 Person Name: Samuel S. Wesley (1810-1876) Composer of "HAWARDEN" in The Church School Hymnal for Youth 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

David Lakie Ritchie

1865 - 1951 Author of "As comes the breath of spring" in The Hymnary of the United Church of Canada Ritchie, David Lakie. (Kingsmuir, Scotland, September 15, 1864--December 14, 1951, Montreal, Quebec). Congregationalist/United Church. Studied at the University of Edinburgh, whose D.D. he received in 1917. Pastorates at Dunfermline (1890-1896) and Newcastle (1896-1903) in Britain; principal of Nottingham Theological Institute, 1903-1919; of Congregational College (Montreal), 1919-1925; and of United Theological College (1925-1939), with which his previous school merged when Canada's Congregationalists entered the church union of 1925. Although he published several works, he was best known in his own day as an effective trainer of ministers for a church in the throes of reorganization. --Hugh D. McKellar, DNAH Archives
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