"I once knew a man who danced with a women, who danced with the Prince of Wales" or so the saying goes... an expression of the six degrees of separation type thing that almost certainly predates the 'six degrees' expression.

Anyhow, true story: I have someone in my congregation whose Father recalls hearing a sermon preached by Howell Lewis, whose hymn is BPW 146... so I have a tenuous link with this hymn which, it seems, expresses something of the gentle spread of the good news as "new people are learning to pray"

The light of the morning is breaking,
The shadows are passing away;
The nations of earth are awaking,
New peoples are learning to pray.
Let wrong, O Redeemer, be righted,
In knowing and doing Thy will;
And gather, as brothers united,
All men to Thy cross on the hill.

Thy love is the bond of creation,
Thy love is the peace of mankind:
Make safe with Thy love every nation
In concord of heart and of mind.
Thy pity alone can deliver
The earth from her sorrows, dear Lord:
Her pride and her hardness forgive her,
Thy blood for her ransom was poured.

Thy throne, O Redeemer, be founded
In radiance of wisdom and love;
Thy name through the wide world be sounded
Till earth be as heaven above.
Though hills and high mountains should tremble,
Though all that is seen melt away,
Thy voice shall in triumph assemble
Thy loved ones at dawning of day.

Howell E Lewis (1860-1953) © Piers Morgan

The tune, Crugybar, is not everso well known, beign a Welsh folk tune.  However I did find this video of some young clarinetists playing Vaughn Williams' fantastia upon it...

PS almost certain it's not that Piers Morgan!!