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FIRST UNITED
METHODIST CHURCH
CHANCEL CHOIR –
CHOIR OF HONOR
INCEPTION DATE
2002
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Members inducted into this Choir of Honor are selected for their loyal participation of many years service to this church with their musical talents, devotion and faithfulness. Candidates are voted into this select group by members of the current chancel choir, when these new inductees’ names are inscribed on the Choir of Honor walls of the choir room.
1. EMMETT WHITE 1930’s – 1950 – Bass Section – organized first male quartet. Selected 2002
2. CHARLES DEAN 1934 – 1947 – Choir Director. Selected 2002
3. MATTIE EVA DEAN 1934 – 1948 – Organist. Selected 2002
4. J.W. KING 1958 – 1970 Choir Director when services were being held in Crawford Hall, awaiting construction of our beautiful sanctuary. He later sang in bass section for many years. Selected 2002
5. BILL WEBB 1970 – 1992. Mr. do-it-all. Organist and pianist. He actually kept these sanctuary instruments tuned himself. Selected 2002
6. MATTIE RUTH NOWLIN 1930’s – 1950’s. Soloist in soprano section, and never turned down an opportunity to perform. Selected 2005
7. JIMMIE SHERMAN 1937 – 1990. Bass Section. Choir president for many years, and always available for duty. Selected 2005
8. MARY WRIGHT 1950 – 1992. Pianist for Sunday School classes, played in hand bell choir and member of soprano section with chancel choir. Selected 2010
Submitted by, Ron White (Chancel Choir member since 1946)
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The Chorister’s Prayer
Bless, O Lord, us Thy servants,
Who minister in Thy Temple.
Grant that what we sing with our lips,
We may believe in our hearts,
And what we believe in our hearts,
We may show forth in
our lives.
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The Chorister's Prayer in its most common form was first
published by the School of English Church Music in 1934 in the Choristers' Pocket Book. No indication of its origin was given there and it has been assumed by
many that this may have been the work of Sir Sydney Nicholson and/or Cosmo
Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury and a keen supporter of Sir Sydney and of the School of English Church
Music as the Royal School of Church Music (RSCM) was then called.
The prayer does however have origins which extend back at
least to the 4th century, for the tenth canon of the fourth council of Carthage
(c 398 AD) decrees that cantors should be blessed with the words Vide, ut quod ore cantas,
corde credas, et quod corde credis, operibus comprobes (“See that what thou singest with thy lips thou dost believe in thine heart,
and that what thou believest in thine heart thou dost show forth in thy works”
- Translation from the preface of A Handbook of Church Music by F Clement Egerton, London, R & T Washbourne Ltd, 1909.)
From: http://www.rscm.com/info_resources/choristers_prayer.php
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