The boy asked, 'Which one, the morning or the evening service?'

The father replied that it was a memorial plaque to commemorate the young men who had died in the service. The boy noticed a bronze plaque on the wall and asked his father what it was for. You perhaps remember the story of the man who was going through a church building one day with his son. Public worship is a very revealing indication of what is going on in a church. That is a relevant subject for us, because that is why we come together every Sunday morning. In Chapter 2 of First Timothy we now come to the second assignment the apostle gave to Timothy, and that is to set in order the public worship of the assembly in Ephesus. That is always the first step toward vitality in a Christian's experience. He was also to stress the need for obedience - that people actually do what they teach. Timothy was to set that straight, using Paul as his model. The writer of Christian Literature and the Church (1963), Someone Who Beckons (1978), and Praying with the English Hymn Writers (1989), Dudley-Smith has also served on various editorial committees, including the committee that published Psalm Praise (1973).The first assignment the Apostle Paul gave to Timothy in regard to the church at Ephesus was to correct the teaching, which had begun to drift from the apostolic revelation into controversial areas that were destructive to faith. Many of his several hundred hymn texts have been collected in Lift Every Heart: Collected Hymns 1961-1983 (1984), Songs of Deliverance: Thirty-six New Hymns (1988), and A Voice of Singing (1993).

Dudley-Smith began writing comic verse while a student at Cambridge he did not begin to write hymns until the 1960s.

He also edited a Christian magazine, Crusade, which was founded after Billy Graham's 1955 London crusade. He has occupied a number of church positions, including parish priest in the diocese of Southwark (1953-1962), archdeacon of Norwich (1973-1981), and bishop of Thetford, Norfolk, from 1981 until his retirement in 1992. 1926) Educated at Pembroke College and Ridley Hall, Cambridge, Dudley-Smith has served the Church of England since his ordination in 1950.

Mornings in the Light by Timothy King