Where Winds of Heaven's Sweet Freedom Blow

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Where winds of heaven's sweet freedom blow

Author: May A. Rowland (1944)
Tune: RICHMOND (Haweis)
Published in 1 hymnal

Piano/Organ
	Hymns of Joy

Author: May A. Rowland

Rowland, May. Born in Oxfordshire, England, the youngest daughter of Thomas Rowland. He died while she was young, and she then lived with her grandparents at Wootton, Oxfordshire. Educated at Bueau Down House School, Burnham on Sea, Somerset. Church worker at All Souls Church and ran a Bible class for "lads" for many years. The All Souls Parish Magazine noted that "many men now engaged in the commercial and business life of the town remember her with real affection." --Information taken from a letter from Mrs. G.H. Faulkner, cousin to May Rowland, to Miss Holden, 27 January 1963. DNAH Archives. Go to person page >

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First Line:	Where winds of heaven's sweet freedom blow
Title:	Where Winds of Heaven's Sweet Freedom Blow
Author:	May A. Rowland (1944)
Meter:	8.6.8.6
Publication Date:	1947
Copyright:	Words copyright, 1945, by the Hymn Society of America.

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RICHMOND (Haweis)

RICHMOND (also known as CHESTERFIELD) is a florid tune originally written by Thomas Haweis (PHH 270) and published in his collection Carmina Christo (1792). Samuel Webbe, Jr., adapted and shortened the tune and published it in his Collection of Psalm Tunes (1808). It was reprinted in 1853 in Webbe's…

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