What gift can we bring

What gift can we bring. Jane Manton Marshall* (1924- ). Written in 1980 for the 25th anniversary celebrations at Northaven United Methodist Church, Dallas, together with its tune, ANNIVERSARY SONG. It had three stanzas. It was then published in the United Methodist Supplement to the Book of Hymns (1982), when stanza 1 was cleverly altered to make stanza 4: ‘What gift can we bring’ becomes ‘This gift we now bring’ (line 1) and ‘What words can convey it’ becomes ‘these words can convey it’ (line 2). It was then included in UMH, and other books such as Donald P. Hustad*’s The Worshiping Church...

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