Go forth for God; go forth to the world in peace
Go forth for God; go forth to the world in peace. John Raphael Peacey* (1896-1971).
This hymn originally began ‘Go forth for God, go to the world in peace’. It gave the title to the collection of Peacey’s hymns published in the USA by Hope Publishing Company in 1991, Go forth for God. It was amended by the editors of English Praise (1975), the Supplement to EH, which altered the metre to 11.10.10.10. to fit the tune MAGDA by Ralph Vaughan Williams*, composed for the forthcoming wedding in 1926 of Magdalene Fisher (‘Magda’), his wife’s niece, but printed before then in SofP (1925) to ‘Saviour, again to thy dear name we raise’* by John Ellerton* (Companion to ICH5, 2005, pp. 613-4).
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. "Go forth for God; go forth to the world in peace."
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