O Lord of Every Shining Constellation

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O Lord of every shining constellation

Author: Albert F. Bayly (1950)
ONE LICENSE: 50051
Published in 24 hymnals

Piano/Organ
	The Organist's Library, Vol. 51

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Author: Albert F. Bayly

Albert F. Bayly was born on September 6, 1901, Bexhill on Sea, Sussex, England. He received his education at London University (BA) and Mansfield College, Oxford. Bayly was a Congregationalist (later United Reformed Church) minister from the late 1920s until his death in 1984. His life and ministry spanned the Depression of the 1930s, the Second World War, and the years of reconstruction which followed. After retiring in 1971, he moved to Springfield, Chelmsford, and was active in the local United Reformed Church. He wrote several pageants on mission themes, and librettos for cantatas by W. L. Lloyd Webber. He died on July 26, 1984 in Chichester, Sussex, England. NN,… Go to person page >

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First Line:	O Lord of every shining constellation
Title:	O Lord of Every Shining Constellation
Author:	Albert F. Bayly (1950)
Meter:	11.10.11.10
Language:	English
Copyright:	© 1950 Oxford University Press

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HIGHWOOD (Terry)

VICAR

GENEVAN 12 (or DONNE SECOURS, see 12) was the tune originally selected for the text for singing at the Evanston Assembly. That tune is set to the Harkness text in many hymnals. V. Earle Copes (PHH 302) composed VICAR in 1963 as a setting for Harkness's text for inclusion in the American Methodist Hy…

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HESLINGTON (Shephard)

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