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Thread #51090   Message #777333
Posted By: Nigel Parsons
05-Sep-02 - 04:43 AM
Thread Name: Help: identify songbook; Hullah
Subject: RE: Help: identify song book; Hullah
I've found a possible reference to the book at Here but it references a hymn which doesn't appear in my copy, so I am still trying.
"GOD THE OMNIPOTENT" "My people will dwell in a peaceful habitation, in secure dwellings, and in quiet resting places" (Isa. 32.18). INTRO.: A hymn which calls upon the all powerful God to help us dwell in a peaceful habitation is "God the Omnipotent." The original text was written by an English Quaker writer, Henry Fothergill Chorley (1808-1872). In four stanzas, it first appeared in John Hullah's 1842 "Part Music." A new text in imitation of Chorley's was written by an English minister of the Anglican Church, John Ellerton (1826-1893). Also in four stanzas and produced in 1870 during the Franco-Prussian War, it was first published in Robert Brown-Borthwick's 1871 "Select Hymns for Church and Home."