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This four-minute adaptation of the traditional folk hymn "Sweet Hour of Prayer" is suitable for concert or sacred presentation. It also exists in its original ATBB version, as well as a TTBB version. Hezekiah Butterworth and Theron Brown’s 1906 book, "The Story of Hymns and Tunes," summarizes what is known about the origins of "Sweet Hour of Prayer": “Rev. William W. Walford, a blind English minister, was the author, and it was probably written about the year 1842. It was recited to Rev. Thomas Salmon, Congregational pastor at Coleshill, Eng., who took it down and brought it to New York, where it was published in the New York Observer. Little is known of Mr. Walford save that in his blindness, besides preaching occasionally, he employed his mechanical skill in making small useful articles of bone and ivory. The tune was composed by W. B. Bradbury in 1859, and first appeared with the hymn in Cottage Melodies.”

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