E HOOKUU IA MAKOU, E KA HAKU

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E ke Akua, e ho'oku'u oe ia makou

Translator: Mitchell Pauole, 1888-; Author: John Fawcett (alt.)
Tune: SICILIAN MARINERS
Published in 1 hymnal

Piano/Organ
	Hymns of Joy

Choral
	O Sanctissima/ O How Joyfully

Handbells
	Christmas Carillon

Translator: Mitchell Pauole, 1888-

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Author: John Fawcett

An orphan at the age of twelve, John Fawcett (b. Lidget Green, Yorkshire, England, 1740; d. Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire, 1817) became apprenticed to a tailor and was largely self-educated. He was converted by the preaching of George Whitefield at the age of sixteen and began preaching soon thereafter. In 1765 Fawcett was called to a small, poor, Baptist country church in Wainsgate, Yorkshire. Seven years later he received a call from the large and influential Carter's Lane Church in London, England. Fawcett accepted the call and preached his farewell sermon. The day of departure came, and his family's belongings were loaded on carts, but the distraught congregation begged him to stay. In Singers and Songs of the Church (1869), Josiah Miller te… Go to person page >

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First Line:	E ke Akua, e ho'oku'u oe ia makou
Title:	E HOOKUU IA MAKOU, E KA HAKU
English Title:	Lord, Dismiss Us With Thy Blessing
Author:	John Fawcett (alt.)
Translator:	Mitchell Pauole, 1888-
Language:	Hawaiian
Publication Date:	1972
Copyright:	This text may still be under copyright because it was published in 1972.

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SICILIAN MARINERS

SICILIAN MARINERS is traditionally used for the Roman Catholic Marian hymn "O Sanctissima." According to tradition, Sicilian seamen ended each day on their ships by singing this hymn in unison. The tune probably traveled from Italy to Germany to England, where The European Magazine and London Review…

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