Our blessed bond of union

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Our blessed bond of union

Author: Robert Murray
Published in 6 hymnals

Piano/Organ
	Three Hymn Settings for Organ, Set 2

Instrumental
	Majestic Praise (Brass Solos for Worship…

Handbells
	Ring for Joy! (Easy Reproducible Hymn Me…

Author: Robert Murray

Murray, Robert, Minister of the Presbyterian Church in Canada, born Dec. 25, 1832, is the author of "From ocean unto ocean" (National Hymn), and "Lord, Thou lov'st the cheerful giver" (Almsgiving), in the Scotch Church Hymnary, 1898. [Rev. James Bonar M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Our blessed bond of union
Author:	Robert Murray
Meter:	7.6.7.6 D
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

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Tune

AURELIA

Composed by Samuel S. Wesley (PHH 206), AURELIA (meaning "golden") was published as a setting for “Jerusalem the Golden” in Selection of Psalms and Hymns, which was compiled by Charles Kemble and Wesley in 1864. Though opinions vary concerning the tune's merits (Henry J. Gauntlett once condemned…

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CRÜGER

LANCASHIRE (Smart)

Henry T. Smart (PHH 233) composed the tune in 1835 for use at a missions festival at Blackburn, Lancashire, England. For that festival, which celebrated the three-hundredth anniversary of the Reformation in England, the tune was set to Reginald Heber's (PHH 249) “From Greenland's Icy Mountains.”…

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