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More Light Shall Break From Out Thy Word

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1 More light shall break from out Thy word
For pilgrim foll'wers of the gleam,
Till, led by Thy free spirit, Lord,
We see and share the pilgrim dream!

2 What mighty hopes are in our care,
What holy dreams of brotherhood;
God of our Fathers, help us dare
Their passion for the common good!

3 Wild roars the blast, the storm is high!
Above the storm are shining still
The lights by which we live and die;
Our peace is ever in Thy will!

4 The ancient stars, the ancient faith,
Defend us till our voyage is done -
Across the floods of fear and death
The Mayflow'r still is sailing on!

Source: Hymns for a Pilgrim People: a congregational hymnal #251

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Author: Allen Eastman Cross

Born: De­cem­ber 30, 1864, Man­ches­ter, New Hamp­shire. Died: Ap­ril 23, 1942, Man­ches­ter, New Hamp­shire. Cross at­tend­ed Phil­lips An­do­ver Academy, Am­herst Coll­ege and the An­do­ver The­o­log­ic­al Sem­in­ary. He pas­tored in Clif­ton­dale, Mass­a­chu­setts (1892-96); Spring­field, Mass­a­chu­setts (1896-1901); at the Old South Church, Bos­ton, Mass­a­chu­setts (1901-12); and Mil­ford, Mass­a­chu­setts (1916-25). His works in­clude: Pass on the Torch, 1929 Thunder Over Je­ru­sa­lem/, 1936 --www.hymntime.com/tch/  Go to person page >

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Text Information

First Line: More light shall break from out Thy Word
Title: More Light Shall Break From Out Thy Word
Author: Allen Eastman Cross (1920)
Meter: 8.8.8.8
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain
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Tune

TRURO

TRURO, a tune of unknown authorship, first printed in Musica Sacra, Being a Choice Collection of Psalm and Hymn Tunes . . . As They Are Used in . . . the Countess of Huntingdon’s Chapels (Bath: W. Gye, ca. 1778 | Fig. 4). It appeared there with “Zion, awake; arise, arise!” which, like Figure 2…

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DUKE STREET

First published anonymously in Henry Boyd's Select Collection of Psalm and Hymn Tunes (1793), DUKE STREET was credited to John Hatton (b. Warrington, England, c. 1710; d, St. Helen's, Lancaster, England, 1793) in William Dixon's Euphonia (1805). Virtually nothing is known about Hatton, its composer,…

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