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May choirs of angels lead you To Paradise on highį. Jesus, our mighty Lord, our strength in sadness I to the hills will lift mine eyes, From whence doth come my aidį. Texts Tunes Hymnals Texts by Bland Tucker (27)Īll glory be to God on high, And peace on earth from heavenĪll praise to thee, for thou, O King divineĪwake, O sleeper, rise from death, And Christ shall give you lightį. Tucker was named a Fellow of the Hymn Society of America. At its annual convocation, Princeton, New Jersey, 1980, Fr. Several of the hymns which he wrote for The Hymnal 1940 have been adopted by hymnals of other denominations throughout the English-speaking world. There his poetic talent was most adept at providing new phrases in older hymns where the original lines were too obsolete or sexist for late-twentieth-century users of the hymnal. Subsequently he served on the Theological Committee which reviewed material for the successor to The Hymnal 1940. In "Reflections of a Hymn Writer" ( The Hymn 30.2, April 1979, pp.115–116), he speaks of never having a thought of writing a hymn until he was named a member of the Joint Commission on the Revision of the Hymnal in 1937 which prepared the Hymnal 1940The Hymnal 1940 Companion, and was then named to the Joint Commission on Church Music of the Episcopal Church where he served from 1946 to 1958. Then until retirement in 1967 he was rector of John Wesley's parish in Georgia, old Christ Church, Savannah. John's Church, Georgetown, Washington, D.C.
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From 1925 to 1945, he was rector of historic St. His first charge was as a rector of Grammer Parish, Brunswick County, in southern Virginia.
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He was ordained deacon in 1918, priest in 1920, after having served as a private in Evacuation Hospital No.15 of the American Expeditionary Forces in France during World War I. The son of a bishop and brother of a Presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, he was educated at the University of Virginia, B.A., 1914, and at Virginia Theological Seminary, B.D., 1920 D.D., 1944. Francis Bland Tucker (born Norfolk, Virginia, January 6, 1895).