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153. We come before our Father's God

Text Information
First Line: We come before our Father's God
Author: Thomas Hornblower Gill, 1819-1906
Meter: 87 87 887
Language: English
Publication Date: 2004
Topic: The Temple: The People of God; The Temple: Worship
Source: Adapt.: Compilers of Praise!, 2000
Tune Information
Name: LUTHER'S HYMN
Meter: 87 87 887
Key: G Major
Source: Later form of melody in Geistliche Lieder, Wittenberg, 1535; Harm.: Compilers of Hymns Ancient and Modern, 1861, alt.



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