Good evening. I found your website this evening while looking for a Christian hymn I heard at a church of Christ YouTube website in Alabama [no longer available]<\/strong>, and I am wondering if you know the song, the writer, and possibly in what book it was published.<\/p>\n The song was: The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof. The people singing it have a songbook in hand and were singing it from it but I don’t recognize the hymnal.<\/p>\n I can’t find anything on this song, nor can I find anything more about it.<\/p>\n\t Up in the right-hand corner is this comment:<\/p>\n This is from a congregational sing at the Alabama Church of Christ New Year’s Meeting 04-05, the song in “Who Shall Stand Before the King” written by Ivan Costa and published in (the late) M Lynwood Smith’s ‘Blessed Refuge’ song book. Thanks for all the views!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I even found where you can order\u00a0Blessed Refuge<\/em>. 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