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As You have promised, Lord, today, You are letting Your servant go away in peace

As You have promised, Lord, today, You are letting Your servant go away in peace

Adapter: Ford Lewis Battles (1971)
Tune: NUNC DIMITTIS (Nelson)
Published in 4 hymnals

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Adapter: Ford Lewis Battles

Battles, Ford Lewis. (Erie, Pennsylvania, 1915--Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1979). West Virginia University, B.A.; Tufts College, M.A. Studied at Oxford with C.S. Lewis as a Rhodes Scholar. Air Force Intelligence during World War II, and taught English at West Virginia University before completing his Ph.D. in church history at Hartford Seminary. Professor of church history at Hartford from 1950 to 1967, and Pittsburgh Theological Seminary from 1967 to 1978, and then Calvin Theological Seminary. --Seminary News, Calvin Theological Seminary, including all addresses given at his funeral. DNAH Archives Go to person page >

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First Line: As You have promised, Lord, today, You are letting Your servant go away in peace
Adapter: Ford Lewis Battles (1971)
Language: English
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Instances

Instances (1 - 2 of 2)

Les Chants du Pèlerin #108

Les Chants du Pèlerin #108

Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal #682

Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal #682
Include 2 pre-1979 instances
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