Come, workers for the Lord

Come, workers for the Lord. Norman Nicholson* (1914-1987). Nicholson was a friend of the distinguished sculptor, Josephina de Vasconcellos, who lived in the Lake District at Little Langdale, not far from Nicholson at Millom. She asked him to write a hymn for a service in St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, inaugurating an exhibition of art and craft work by children from Approved Schools (schools for children in trouble with the law). This hymn was included in 100HfT (1969) and thus in A&MNS, and also in Praise for Today (1974). It then appeared in HP and in other books. In HP there was an alteration, with Nicholson’s approval, to stanza 3 line 3, from ‘the men who nailed him to the tree’...