Let Freedom Span Both East and West

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Author: Jacob Trapp

Trapp, Rev. Jacob, S.T.D. (Muskegon, Michigan, April 12, 1899-- ). He was educated at Valparaiso University and The Pacific Unitarian School for the Ministry (later called The Starr King School for the Ministry). He was ordained in 1929 and served Unitarian churches in Salt Lake City, Utah; Denver, Colorado; and Summit, New Jersey. In 1932 he wrote a hymn beginning "Wonders still the world shall witness," which is included, with some revisions, in Hymns of the Spirit, 1937. --Henry Wilder Foote, DNAH Archives Go to person page >

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Text Information

First Line: Let freedom span both east and west
Title: Let Freedom Span Both East and West
Author: Jacob Trapp
Meter: 8.6.8.6
Language: English
Copyright: © Jacob Trapp
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Tune

MCKEE

MC KEE has an interesting history. According to a letter from Charles V. Stanford (PHH 512) to Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (who arranged the tune for piano in his Twenty-Four Negro Melodies, 1905), MC KEE was originally an Irish tune taken to the United States and adapted by African American slaves. It…

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Singing the Living Tradition #148

Singing the Living Tradition #148
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