Tune: PROCTOR (Holbrook)

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PROCTOR (Holbrook)

Composer: J. P. Holbrook
Published in 6 hymnals

Piano/Organ
	Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah

Choral
	GUIDE ME, O THOU GREAT JEHOVAH

PowerPoint
	GUIDE ME, O MY GREAT REDEEMER (Lift Up Y…

Composer: J. P. Holbrook

Joseph P. Holbrook was a tune writer in the parlor music style, and used the popular melodies of Mason and Hastings, Bradbury and Root, Greatorex and Kingsley in his collections. He furnished settings for the choir hymns in Songs for the Sanctuary in his Quartet and chorus Choir (New York, 1871, and sought more recogniation than had been given him in a hymnal of his own, Worship in Song (New York, 1880); a book that found no welcome. from The English hymn: its development and use in worship By Louis FitzGerald Benson Go to person page >

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Tune Information

Title:	PROCTOR (Holbrook)
Composer:	J. P. Holbrook
Meter:	8s, 7s & 4s.
Incipit:	17521 34271 2
Key:	B♭ Major
Copyright:	Public Domain

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Texts

The Acceptable Year

Guide Me

Guide me, O my great Redeemer,
pilgrim through this barren land;
I am weak, but you are mighty;
hold me with your powerful hand.
Bread of heaven, bread of heaven,
feed me now and evermore,
feed me now and evermore.

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Who but Thou, almighty Spirit

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