O God of all the many lands
O God of all the many lands. Mary Susannah Edgar* (1889-1973).
Edgar wrote a prayer for Canada, ‘God of the nations of the earth’, for a service celebrating Canada’s 60th anniversary in 1927. It was published in The Hymn Book of the Church of England in Canada (HB 1938) where it was set to MANDATUM by James Edmund Jones. The text was revised substantially in Canada’s centennial year of 1967, becoming ‘O God of all the many lands’, with an added stanza celebrating the arrival of new immigrants to Canada. It was published in The Hymn Book (1971) of the United Church of Canada and the Anglican Church of Canada, where it was set to VALIANT by Canadian composer Keith Bissell.
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