Lord, Thou hast brought us to our journey's end

Lord, Thou hast brought us to our journey's end

Author: Cyril Argentine Alington
Tune: SONG 24
Published in 2 hymnals

Author: Cyril Argentine Alington

Educated at Trinity College, Oxford, England, Cyril A. Alington (b. Ipswich, England, 1872; d. St. Leonards, Hertfordshire, England, 1955) was ordained a priest in the Church of England in 1901. He had a teaching career that included being headmaster at Shrewsbury School and Eton College. He was dean of Durham from 1933-1951 as well as chaplain to the king of England. His writings include literary works and Christianity in England, Good News (1945). Many of his hymns appeared in various twentieth-century editions of the famous British hymnal, Hymns Ancient and Modern. Bert Polman Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: Lord, Thou hast brought us to our journey's end
Author: Cyril Argentine Alington
Language: English

Tune

SONG 24

Orlando Gibbons (b. Oxford, England, 1583; d. Canterbury, England, 1625) composed SONG 24 as a setting for a paraphrase of Lamentations 1. The tune was number 24 (hence, the tune name) in his collection of hymn tunes composed for and published in George Wither's The Hymnes and Songs of the Church (1…

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Instances

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Hymnal for Colleges and Schools #350

Hymnal for Colleges and Schools. 3rd ed. #d170

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