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Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: John Barnard (b. 1948) Tune Key: C Major Incipit: 34515 12334 51776 Used With Text: When to our world the Saviour came

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This is the truth which we proclaim

Author: Michael Saward (born 1932) Appears in 3 hymnals Topics: God's Church Christian Initiation; Trinity Sunday The Trinity Used With Tune: FOSSEBRIDGE

When to our world the Saviour came

Author: Timothy Dudley-Smith (b. 1926) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 4 hymnals Lyrics: 1 When to our world the Saviour came the sick and helpless heard his name, and in their weakness longed to see the healing Christ of Galilee. 2 That good physician! Night and day the people thronged about his way; and wonder ran from soul to soul, 'The touch of Christ has made us whole!' 3 His praises then were heard and sung by opened ears and loosened tongue, while lightened eyes could see and know the healing Christ of long ago. 4 Of long ago: yet living still, who died for us on Calvary's hill; who triumphed over cross and grave, his healing hands stretched forth to save. 5 His sovereign purpose still remains who rose in power, and lives and reigns; till every tongue confess his praise, the healing Christ of all our days. Topics: Church Year Good Friday; Church Year Easter; Healing; Jesus Life and Ministry; The Fourth Sunday before Lent Year C; Wholeness and Healing Scripture: Mark 1:21-34 Used With Tune: FOSSEBRIDGE

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This is the truth which we proclaim

Author: Michael Saward (born 1932) Hymnal: Hymns for Today's Church (2nd ed.) #388 (1987) Topics: God's Church Christian Initiation; Trinity Sunday The Trinity Languages: English Tune Title: FOSSEBRIDGE

When to our world the Saviour came

Author: Timothy Dudley-Smith (b. 1926) Hymnal: Ancient and Modern #525 (2013) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Lyrics: 1 When to our world the Saviour came the sick and helpless heard his name, and in their weakness longed to see the healing Christ of Galilee. 2 That good physician! Night and day the people thronged about his way; and wonder ran from soul to soul, 'The touch of Christ has made us whole!' 3 His praises then were heard and sung by opened ears and loosened tongue, while lightened eyes could see and know the healing Christ of long ago. 4 Of long ago: yet living still, who died for us on Calvary's hill; who triumphed over cross and grave, his healing hands stretched forth to save. 5 His sovereign purpose still remains who rose in power, and lives and reigns; till every tongue confess his praise, the healing Christ of all our days. Topics: Church Year Good Friday; Church Year Easter; Healing; Jesus Life and Ministry; The Fourth Sunday before Lent Year C; Wholeness and Healing Scripture: Mark 1:21-34 Languages: English Tune Title: FOSSEBRIDGE

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John Barnard

b. 1948 Person Name: John Barnard (born 1948) Composer of "FOSSEBRIDGE" in Hymns for Today's Church (2nd ed.)

Timothy Dudley-Smith

1926 - 2024 Person Name: Timothy Dudley-Smith (b. 1926) Author of "When to our world the Saviour came" in Ancient and Modern Timothy Dudley-Smith (b. 1926) Educated at Pembroke College and Ridley Hall, Cambridge, Dudley-Smith has served the Church of England since his ordination in 1950. He has occupied a number of church positions, including parish priest in the diocese of Southwark (1953-1962), archdeacon of Norwich (1973-1981), and bishop of Thetford, Norfolk, from 1981 until his retirement in 1992. He also edited a Christian magazine, Crusade, which was founded after Billy Graham's 1955 London crusade. Dudley-Smith began writing comic verse while a student at Cambridge; he did not begin to write hymns until the 1960s. Many of his several hundred hymn texts have been collected in Lift Every Heart: Collected Hymns 1961-1983 (1984), Songs of Deliverance: Thirty-six New Hymns (1988), and A Voice of Singing (1993). The writer of Christian Literature and the Church (1963), Someone Who Beckons (1978), and Praying with the English Hymn Writers (1989), Dudley-Smith has also served on various editorial committees, including the committee that published Psalm Praise (1973). Bert Polman

Michael Saward

1932 - 2015 Person Name: Michael Saward (born 1932) Author of "This is the truth which we proclaim" in Hymns for Today's Church (2nd ed.) Michael John Saward (b. Blackheath, Kent, England, 1932) was residentiary Canon of St. Paul's Cathedral, London, and a church commissioner and member of the general synod of the Church of England. Educated at Eltham College, Bristol University, and Tyndale Hall, he was ordained in the Church of England in 1956. Saward served in several congregations and was radio and television officer for the Church Information Office (1967-1972). His publications include Leisure (1963), Couldn’t Care Less (1966), Don't Miss the Party (1974), and All Change (1983). Associated with the Jubilate Group for a number of years, he has written some sixty hymns and served as text editor for Hymns for Today's Church (1982). Bert Polman