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O Christ, Impart Your Teaching True

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Author: Michael Sattler

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Translator: Myron S. Augsburger

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Text Information

First Line: O Christ, impart your teaching true
Title: O Christ, Impart Your Teaching True
Author: Michael Sattler (1527)
Translator: Myron S. Augsburger (1965)
Meter: 8.8.8.8
Source: Ausbund, 1583; adapt. Mennonite Worship and Song Committee
Copyright: trans. © 1990 Myron Augsburger

Tune

MARYTON

After various tunes had been set to this text, Gladden insisted on the use of MARYTON. Composed by H. Percy Smith (b. Malta, 1825; d. Bournemouth, Hampshire, England, 1898), the tune was originally published as a setting for John Keble's "Sun of My Soul" in Arthur S. Sullivan's Church Hymns with Tun…

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