Dejad los niños venir

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Ved al Pastor de Israel

Author: Philip Doddridge; Translator: G. H. Rule
Published in 6 hymnals

Piano/Organ
	The Lord Is My Shepherd - Six Hymn Setti…

Author: Philip Doddridge

Philip Doddridge (b. London, England, 1702; d. Lisbon, Portugal, 1751) belonged to the Non-conformist Church (not associated with the Church of England). Its members were frequently the focus of discrimination. Offered an education by a rich patron to prepare him for ordination in the Church of England, Doddridge chose instead to remain in the Non-conformist Church. For twenty years he pastored a poor parish in Northampton, where he opened an academy for training Non-conformist ministers and taught most of the subjects himself. Doddridge suffered from tuberculosis, and when Lady Huntington, one of his patrons, offered to finance a trip to Lisbon for his health, he is reputed to have said, "I can as well go to heaven from Lisbon as from Nort… Go to person page >

Translator: G. H. Rule

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Text Information

Text Information

First Line:	Ved al Pastor de Israel
Title:	Dejad los niños venir
Author:	Philip Doddridge
Translator:	G. H. Rule
Language:	Spanish
Copyright:	Public Domain

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Tune

SPOHR (Spohr 53351)

EVAN (Havergal)

This tune [EVAN], "the popularity of which in Scotland, America, and the Colonies is quite unprecedented" (Tonic Sol Fa Reporter, May 15, 1870), consists of the 1st, 2nd, 7th, and 8th strains of "O Thou dread Power" a sacred song by the Rev. W.H. Havergal, the melody being unaltered. EVAN II is the…

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ENGEDI (Beethoven)

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