More Light Shall Break From Out Thy Word

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More light shall break from out Thy Word

Author: Allen Eastman Cross
Tune: DUKE STREET
Published in 14 hymnals

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1 More light shall break from out Thy word
For pilgrim foll'wers of the gleam,
Till, led by Thy free spirit, Lord,
We see and share the pilgrim dream!

2 What mighty hopes are in our care,
What holy dreams of brotherhood;
God of our Fathers, help us dare
Their passion for the common good!

3 Wild roars the blast, the storm is high!
Above the storm are shining still
The lights by which we live and die;
Our peace is ever in Thy will!

4 The ancient stars, the ancient faith,
Defend us till our voyage is done -
Across the floods of fear and death
The Mayflow'r still is sailing on!

Source: Hymns for a Pilgrim People: a congregational hymnal #251

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Author: Allen Eastman Cross

Born: December 30, 1864, Manchester, New Hampshire. Died: April 23, 1942, Manchester, New Hampshire. Cross attended Phillips Andover Academy, Amherst College and the Andover Theological Seminary. He pastored in Cliftondale, Massachusetts (1892-96); Springfield, Massachusetts (1896-1901); at the Old South Church, Boston, Massachusetts (1901-12); and Milford, Massachusetts (1916-25). His works include: Pass on the Torch, 1929 Thunder Over Jerusalem/, 1936 --www.hymntime.com/tch/ Go to person page >

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First Line:	More light shall break from out Thy Word
Title:	More Light Shall Break From Out Thy Word
Author:	Allen Eastman Cross
Meter:	8.8.8.8
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

Psalm 119:105
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DUKE STREET

First published anonymously in Henry Boyd's Select Collection of Psalm and Hymn Tunes (1793), DUKE STREET was credited to John Hatton (b. Warrington, England, c. 1710; d, St. Helen's, Lancaster, England, 1793) in William Dixon's Euphonia (1805). Virtually nothing is known about Hatton, its composer,…

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TRURO (Williams)

TRURO is an anonymous tune, first published in Thomas Williams's Psalmodia Evangelica, (second vol., 1789) as a setting for Isaac Watts' "Now to the Lord a noble song." Virtually nothing is known about this eighteenth-century British editor of the two-volume Psalmodia Evangelica, a collection of thr…

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