The Sending, Lord, Springs

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Author: William J. Danker

Danker was ed­u­cat­ed at Con­cor­dia Col­lege, Mil­wau­kee, Wis­con­sin; Con­cor­dia Sem­in­a­ry, St. Lou­is, Mis­sou­ri; Whea­ton Col­lege (BA); the Un­i­ver­si­ty of Chi­ca­go (MA); and the Un­i­ver­si­ty of Hei­del­berg (DTheol, mag­na cum laude). Af­ter or­din­a­tion, he pas­tored at St. Paul’s Lu­ther­an Church, Har­vard, Il­li­nois (1937-42), and Trin­i­ty Lu­ther­an Church, West Chi­ca­go, Il­li­nois (1942-48). From 1948-55, he served as the Lu­ther­an Church Mis­sou­ri Synod’s first mis­sion­a­ry to Ja­pan. Up­on re­turn to Amer­i­ca, he be­came a pro­fess­or at Con­cor­dia Sem­in­a­ry, and di­rect­ed the World Mis­sion In­sti­tute. His works in­clude:… Go to person page >

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Text Information

First Line: The sending, Lord, springs from thy yearning heart
Title: The Sending, Lord, Springs
Author: William J. Danker (1966)
Meter: 10.10.10.4
Language: English
Copyright: Text © 1966, Christianity Today. Used by permission.
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Tune

MISSION (Hillert)


ENGELBERG

Charles V. Stanford (b. Dublin, Ireland, 1852; d. Marylebone, London, England, 1924) composed ENGELBERG as a setting for William W. How's "For All the Saints" (505). The tune was published in the 1904 edition of Hymns Ancient and Modern with no less than six different musical settings. It is clearly…

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SINE NOMINE

Ralph Vaughan Williams (PHH 316) composed SINE NOMINE for this text and published it in the English Hymnal in 1906. Vaughan Williams wrote two harmonizations¬–one for unison stanzas and one for choral stanzas. The tune's title means "without name" and follows the Renaissance tradition of naming c…

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Instances

Instances (1 - 3 of 3)

Hymns for the Living Church #477

Hymns for the Living Church #477

Trinity Hymnal (Rev. ed.) #451

Trinity Hymnal (Rev. ed.) #451

Worship Supplement #761

Worship Supplement #761
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