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| | FREDERICK WILLIAM FABER - LoveToKnow Article on FREDERICK WILLIAM FABER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29) |
 | | In 1849 a branch of the oratorysubsequeiitly independentwas established in London, first in King \Villiam Street, and afterwards at Brompton, over which Faber presided till his death on the 26th of September 1863. |
 | | It is mainly as a hymn-writer, however, that Faber is remembered. |
 | | Among his best-known hymns are: The Greatness of God, The Will of God, The Eternal Father, The God of my Childhood, Jesus is God, The Pilgrims of the Night, The Land beyond the Sea, Sweet Saviour, bless us ere we go, I was wandering and weary, and The Shadow of the Rock. |
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