Eternal God, before whose face we stand
Eternal God, before whose face we stand. Timothy Dudley-Smith* (1926-2024).
Responding to a request from Canon Charles Stewart, then precentor of Winchester Cathedral, for a new Remembrance Sunday hymn, the author wrote this at Ford, near Salisbury, in January 1999. This occasion is not the easiest for which to choose hymns that do justice to a variety of emotions and contrasting attitudes to war and peace, but the text reflects the desire to unite mixed congregations gathering at these events.
Dudley-Smith began with a suitably ‘solemn but not mournful’ tune, UNDE ET MEMORES, and aimed ‘to couple the twin themes of remembrance, and the search for peace in our time; a remembrance which...
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