Join all ye servants of the Lord

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Join all ye servants of the Lord

Author: Harriet Auber
Tune: ST. WERBURGH (Dykes)
Published in 22 hymnals

Author: Harriet Auber

Auber, Harriet, daughter of Mr. James Auber, b. in London, Oct. 4, 1773. During the greater part of her quiet and secluded life she resided at Broxbourne and Hoddesdon, Herts, and died at the latter place on the 20th Jan., 1862. Miss Auber wrote devotional and other poetry, but only a portion of the former was published in her Spirit of the Psalms, in 1829. This collection is mainly her work, and from it some useful versions of the Psalms have been taken and included in modern hymn-books, about 20 appearing in Spurgeon's Our Own Hymn Book, 1866. Miss Auber's name is widely known, but it is principally through her exquisite lyric, "Our blest Redeemer, ere He breathed," and the Epiphany hymn, "Bright was the guiding star that led." (For criti… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Join all ye servants of the Lord
Author:	Harriet Auber
Source:	Spirit of the Psalms
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

Psalm 56
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ST. WERBURGH (Dykes)

Werburh or Wærburh (also known as Werburgh and Werburga) (d. 3 February 699 at Trentham) is an English saint and the patron saint of Chester. She was born at Stone (now in Staffordshire), and was the daughter of King Wulfhere of Mercia (himself the Christian son of the pagan King Penda of Mercia) a…

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