Hark! it is wisdom's voice

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Hark! it is wisdom's voice

Author: Philip Doddridge
Tune: ST. THOMAS (Williams)
Published in 11 hymnals

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Hark it is wisdom's voice
That spreads itself around;
Come hither all ye sons of death,
And listen to the sound.

Source: Columbian Harmony; or a choice collection of Psalm Tunes, Hymns, and Anthems, in three parts;... #19

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Author: Philip Doddridge

Philip Doddridge (b. London, England, 1702; d. Lisbon, Portugal, 1751) belonged to the Non-conformist Church (not associated with the Church of England). Its members were frequently the focus of discrimination. Offered an education by a rich patron to prepare him for ordination in the Church of England, Doddridge chose instead to remain in the Non-conformist Church. For twenty years he pastored a poor parish in Northampton, where he opened an academy for training Non-conformist ministers and taught most of the subjects himself. Doddridge suffered from tuberculosis, and when Lady Huntington, one of his patrons, offered to finance a trip to Lisbon for his health, he is reputed to have said, "I can as well go to heaven from Lisbon as from Nort… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Hark! it is wisdom's voice
Author:	Philip Doddridge
Copyright:	Public Domain

Proverbs 1:20-26
(hymns)

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ST. THOMAS (Williams)

ST. THOMAS is actually lines 5 through 8 of the sixteen-line tune HOLBORN, composed by Aaron Williams (b. London, England, 1731; d. London, 1776) and published in his Collection (1763, 1765) as a setting for Charles Wesley's text "Soldiers of Christ, Arise" (570). The harmonization is by Lowell Maso…

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