Henry T. Smart (PHH 233) composed the tune in 1835 for use at a missions festival at Blackburn, Lancashire, England. For that festival, which celebrated the three-hundredth anniversary of the Reformation in England, the tune was set to Reginald Heber's (PHH 249) “From Greenland's Icy Mountains.”…
Display Title: Send Forth Your Light, O ZionFirst Line: Send forth your light, O Zion!Tune Title: LANCASHIREAuthor: Roy A. Cheville, 1897-1986Meter: 7.6.7.6.D.Date: 2013