What ask we for the children

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What ask we for the children

Author: Andrew Chalmers
Tune: CHRISTUS, DER IST MEIN LEBEN
Published in 2 hymnals

Piano/Organ
	TWELVE TOCCATAS FOR ORGAN

Author: Andrew Chalmers

Chalmers, Andrew, b. 1840, died 24 July 1912 in Wakefield, Yorkshire. He published three volumes of hymns: - Hymns & Litanies - Modern Hymns - Litanies and Chants --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chalmers, Andrew, b. 1840. Since 1880 Minister of Westgate Chapel, Wakefield. Editor of Modern Hymns, privately printed in 1891 for the use of his congregation. A collection of 626 hymns, with much modern material, considerable adaptations, and 25 of his own hymns. 1. Great Lord of Life! what length of days. In His hands. 2. 0 Thou, Who swayed the hearts of all. Influence of Jesus. 3. Spirit of Truth! our fathers reared. Victory of Tr… Go to person page >

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First Line:	What ask we for the children
Author:	Andrew Chalmers
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

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CHRISTUS, DER IST MEIN LEBEN

Melchior Vulpius (PHH 397) composed this short chorale tune, published as a setting for the anonymous funeral hymn "Christus, der ist mein Leben" ("For Me to Live Is Jesus") in Vulpius's Ein Schön Geistlich Gesangbuch (1609). Johann S. Bach (PHH 7) based his Cantata 95 on this tune and provided two…

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