Servants of the Saviour

Servants of the Saviour. Sylvia Dunstan* (1955-1993). This text grew out of a class, ‘From Ashes to Fire’, that Sylvia Dunstan and Alan Barthel were teaching at Emmanuel College, Toronto. Part of the course work was to plan and realize an Easter Vigil with the college and two local congregations. Failing to find a hymn that would function theologically in moving the congregation from the font to the table, the class commissioned Sylvia to write an appropriate text. Because it was written to be sung in procession, Sylvia set the text to a tune that marched easily. In her words, ‘My grandfather was partial to the Salvation Army, so in my childhood I attended evening services there frequently...