Tune: WEYMOUTH (Ferris)

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WEYMOUTH (Ferris)

Composer: Theodore P. Ferris (1941)
Published in 11 hymnals

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	LET CHILDREN HEAR THE MIGHTY DEEDS (Trin…

Composer: Theodore P. Ferris

The Rev. Dr. Theodore Parker Ferris, the son of Walter Andrew and Eva (Parker) Ferris, was born in Port Chester, New York, on December 23, 1908. He received his A.B. from Harvard University in 1929 and B.D. from General Theological Seminary, NY, in 1933. Ordained deacon on June 11, 1933, he was ordained a priest on May 27, 1934. From 1933 until 1937 Ferris was assistant to the rector of Grace Church, New York, and at the same time served as fellow and tutor at General Seminary. From 1937 until 1942, he was rector of Emmanuel Church, Baltimore, and from 1942 until his death, he was the fourteenth rector of Trinity Church, Boston, Massachusetts. Many of his publications were books of sermons. He published a book on preaching Go Tell the P… Go to person page >

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Tune Information

Title:	WEYMOUTH (Ferris)
Composer:	Theodore P. Ferris (1941)
Meter:	8.6.8.6 D
Incipit:	51712 34543 1171
Key:	F Major
Copyright:	© 1942, 1961, The Church Pension Fund.

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Texts

Let children hear the mighty deeds

Behold a Sower! from afar

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Notes

Theodore Parker Ferris (b. Port Chester, NY, 1908; d. 1972) composed WEYMOUTH in 1941 for H. C. Robbins's text "And Have the Bright Immensities"; the tune was published in The Hymnal 1940. Ferris named the tune for his summer hometown, Weymouth, Nova Scotia. Well-crafted with an effective rhythmic climax in the final line, WEYMOUTH requires a brisk accompaniment at an energetic pace.

A graduate of Harvard University and General Theological Seminary (1934), Ferris was ordained a priest in the Episcopal church. He taught at General Theological Seminary and served Grace Church in New York City, Emmanuel Church in Baltimore, Maryland, and Trinity Church in Boston, Massachusetts. His publications include This Created World (1944) and The Image of God (1965).

--Psalter Hymnal Handbook, 1988

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