Praise God for the harvest of orchard and field
Praise God for the harvest of orchard and field. Brian Arthur Wren* (1936- ). Written in April 1968, and published in the Baptist supplement Praise for Today (1974), with the first line as ‘Praise God for the harvest of farm and of field’, and with ‘man’ used throughout. It was revised in 1978 for publication in Mainly Hymns (Leeds, 1980) and in Faith Looking Forward (1983). It was revised again in 1995 for publication in Piece Together Praise (1996), where a note has an exclamation mark to indicate Wren’s shocked rejection of his own first text: ‘revised because of its sexist language (“Pray God that man’s harvest by men may be shared”!) and over-optimism about nuclear power’ (p. 108). The...
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