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Meter: 10.10.10.4 Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Beryl Matthews (born 1926) Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 34322 53125 Used With Text: All praise to Christ, our Lord and king divine

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All praise to Christ, our Lord and king divine

Author: F. Bland Tucker (1895-1984) Meter: 10.10.10.4 Appears in 53 hymnals Topics: God, Saviour Praised and Worshipped; Palm Sunday The Way of the Cross; Pentecost 10 The Mind of Christ; The Ascension of Christ Scripture: Philippians 2:5-11 Used With Tune: CREATION Text Sources: The Song of Christ's Glory

Give thanks for life, the measure of our days

Author: Shirley Murray, 1931- Meter: 10.10.10.4 Appears in 13 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Give thanks for life, the measure of our days; mortal, we pass through beauty that decays, yet sing to God our hope, our love, our praise: hallelujah! 2 Give thanks for those who made their life a light caught from the Christ-flame, bursting through the night, who touched the truth, who burned for what is right: hallelujah! 3 And for our own, our living and our dead, thanks for the love by which our life is fed, a love not changed by time or death or dread: hallelujah! 4 Give thanks for hope, that like the wheat, the grain lying in darkness does its life retain in resurrection to grow green again: hallelujah! Topics: Communion of Saints; Hope; Recessionals; Thankfulness; Witness / Martyrs Scripture: Psalm 90:12 Used With Tune: CREATION

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All praise to Christ, our Lord and king divine

Author: F. Bland Tucker (1895-1984) Hymnal: Hymns for Today's Church (2nd ed.) #204a (1987) Meter: 10.10.10.4 Topics: God, Saviour Praised and Worshipped; Palm Sunday The Way of the Cross; Pentecost 10 The Mind of Christ; The Ascension of Christ Scripture: Philippians 2:5-11 Languages: English Tune Title: CREATION

Give thanks for life, the measure of our days

Author: Shirley Murray, 1931- Hymnal: The Book of Praise #613 (1997) Meter: 10.10.10.4 Lyrics: 1 Give thanks for life, the measure of our days; mortal, we pass through beauty that decays, yet sing to God our hope, our love, our praise: hallelujah! 2 Give thanks for those who made their life a light caught from the Christ-flame, bursting through the night, who touched the truth, who burned for what is right: hallelujah! 3 And for our own, our living and our dead, thanks for the love by which our life is fed, a love not changed by time or death or dread: hallelujah! 4 Give thanks for hope, that like the wheat, the grain lying in darkness does its life retain in resurrection to grow green again: hallelujah! Topics: Communion of Saints; Hope; Recessionals; Thankfulness; Witness / Martyrs Scripture: Psalm 90:12 Languages: English Tune Title: CREATION

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Bland Tucker

1895 - 1984 Person Name: F. Bland Tucker (1895-1984) Author of "All praise to Christ, our Lord and king divine" in Hymns for Today's Church (2nd ed.) Francis Bland Tucker (born Norfolk, Virginia, January 6, 1895). The son of a bishop and brother of a Presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, he was educated at the University of Virginia, B.A., 1914, and at Virginia Theological Seminary, B.D., 1920; D.D., 1944. He was ordained deacon in 1918, priest in 1920, after having served as a private in Evacuation Hospital No.15 of the American Expeditionary Forces in France during World War I. His first charge was as a rector of Grammer Parish, Brunswick County, in southern Virginia. From 1925 to 1945, he was rector of historic St. John's Church, Georgetown, Washington, D.C. Then until retirement in 1967 he was rector of John Wesley's parish in Georgia, old Christ Church, Savannah. In "Reflections of a Hymn Writer" (The Hymn 30.2, April 1979, pp.115–116), he speaks of never having a thought of writing a hymn until he was named a member of the Joint Commission on the Revision of the Hymnal in 1937 which prepared the Hymnal 1940

Shirley Erena Murray

1931 - 2020 Person Name: Shirley Murray, 1931- Author of "Give thanks for life, the measure of our days" in The Book of Praise 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