The Church of God a kingdom is
The Church of God a kingdom is. Lionel Boulton Campbell Lockhart Muirhead* (1845-1925).
Written for Muirhead’s friend Robert Bridges*, and included in Part III of the Yattendon Hymnal* (1898). It was included in EH, and subsequently in the Standard Edition of A&M (1922) and in SofP. It is now a well-known item in Church of England books (A&MR, A&MNS, A&MCP, NEH), and it is found in BBCHB and in the Roman Catholic Parish Hymn Book (1968). In the USA it was printed in H40, and it also appears, perhaps surprisingly, in the EACC Hymnal (1963). It is not normally found in British Free Church hymnbooks, nor is it in A&MRW or H82. It had six stanzas:
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