The Lord made man, the scriptures tell

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The Lord made man, the scriptures tell

Author: Timothy Dudley-Smith
Published in 3 hymnals

Piano/Organ
	Easy Organ Library, Vol. 52

Choral
	From Heaven Above to Earth I Come - (Cho…

Instrumental
	O Come, Emmanuel: Six Advent and Christm…

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Author: Timothy Dudley-Smith

Timothy Dudley-Smith (b. 1926) Educated at Pembroke College and Ridley Hall, Cambridge, Dudley-Smith has served the Church of England since his ordination in 1950. He has occupied a number of church positions, including parish priest in the diocese of Southwark (1953-1962), archdeacon of Norwich (1973-1981), and bishop of Thetford, Norfolk, from 1981 until his retirement in 1992. He also edited a Christian magazine, Crusade, which was founded after Billy Graham's 1955 London crusade. Dudley-Smith began writing comic verse while a student at Cambridge; he did not begin to write hymns until the 1960s. Many of his several hundred hymn texts have been collected in Lift Every Heart: Collected Hymns 1961-1983 (1984), Songs of Deliverance: Thirt… Go to person page >

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First Line:	The Lord made man, the scriptures tell
Author:	Timothy Dudley-Smith
Meter:	8.8.8.8
Language:	English
Copyright:	© Timothy Dudley-Smith / Oxford University Press

Romans 5:12-21
(hymns)

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VOM HIMMEL HOCH

Initially Luther used the folk melody associated with his first stanza as the tune for this hymn. Later he composed this new tune for his text. VOM HIMMEL HOCH was first published in Valentin Schumann's Geistliche Lieder in 1539. Johann S. Bach (PHH 7) used Luther's melody in three places in his wel…

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BIRLING

THE HOLY SON

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