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Sun of our life! thy quickening ray
Author: O. W. Holmes Appears in 16 hymnals Hymnal Title: Song-Hymnal of Praise and Joy Used With Tune: HURSLEY
Sun of our life! thy quickening ray
[Sun of our life, thy quickening ray]
Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Brackett Hymnal Title: Christian Science Hymnal Used With Text: Sun of our life, thy quickening ray
[Sun of our life, thy quickening ray]
Sun of our life, Thy quick'ning ray
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, abr. Hymnal: Christian Science Hymnal #a8 (1903) Hymnal Title: Christian Science Hymnal Languages: English
Sun of our life, Thy quick'ning ray
Sun of our life, Thy quick'ning ray
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, abr. Hymnal: Christian Science Hymnal #aa8 (1905) Hymnal Title: Christian Science Hymnal Languages: English
Sun of our life, Thy quick'ning ray
Sun of our life, thy quickening ray
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes Hymnal: Christian Science Hymnal #8 (1909) Hymnal Title: Christian Science Hymnal Languages: English Tune Title: [Sun of our life, thy quickening ray]
Sun of our life, thy quickening ray
Lyman F. Brackett
1852 - 1937 Person Name: Brackett Hymnal Title: Christian Science Hymnal Composer of "[Sun of our life, thy quickening ray]" in Christian Science Hymnal Brackett was born on September 30, 1852 in Charlestown, Massachusetts. He worked for a while for the Oliver Ditson Company, and later taught in Chickering Hall in Boston. He was the music editor of the first Christian Science Hymnal in 1892, contributing 99 tunes. He died on May 8, 1937 in Roslindale, Massachusetts.
Sources: Hogdson, Hughes, p. 321
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Lyman F. Brackett
John Bacchus Dykes
1823 - 1876 Person Name: John B. Dykes Hymnal Title: Christian Science Hymnal (Rev. and enl.) Composer of "RIVAULX" in Christian Science Hymnal (Rev. and enl.) As a young child John Bacchus Dykes (b. Kingston-upon-Hull' England, 1823; d. Ticehurst, Sussex, England, 1876) took violin and piano lessons. At the age of ten he became the organist of St. John's in Hull, where his grandfather was vicar. After receiving a classics degree from St. Catherine College, Cambridge, England, he was ordained in the Church of England in 1847. In 1849 he became the precentor and choir director at Durham Cathedral, where he introduced reforms in the choir by insisting on consistent attendance, increasing rehearsals, and initiating music festivals. He served the parish of St. Oswald in Durham from 1862 until the year of his death. To the chagrin of his bishop, Dykes favored the high church practices associated with the Oxford Movement (choir robes, incense, and the like). A number of his three hundred hymn tunes are still respected as durable examples of Victorian hymnody. Most of his tunes were first published in Chope's Congregational Hymn and Tune Book (1857) and in early editions of the famous British hymnal, Hymns Ancient and Modern.
Bert Polman
John Bacchus Dykes
Oliver Wendell Holmes
1809 - 1894 Person Name: O. W. Holmes Hymnal Title: Song-Hymnal of Praise and Joy Author of "Sun of our life! thy quickening ray" in Song-Hymnal of Praise and Joy Holmes, Oliver Wendell, M.D, LL.D., son of the Rev. Abiel Holmes, D.D. of Cambridge, U.S.A., was born at Cambridge, Aug. 29, 1809, and educated at Harvard, where he graduated in 1829. After practising for some time in Boston, he was elected in 1847 to the chair of Anatomy, in Harvard. His writings in prose and verse are well known and widely circulated. They excel in humour and pathos. Although not strictly speaking a hymnwriter, a few of his hymns are in extensive use, and include:—
1. Father of mercies, heavenly Friend. Prayer during war.
2. Lord of all being, throned afar. God's Omnipresence. This is a hymn of great merit. It is dated 1848.
3. 0 Lord of hosts, Almighty King. Soldiers’ Hymn. Dated 1861.
4. 0 Love divine that stoop'st to share. Trust. 1859.
Of these Nos. 2 and 4 are in his Professor at the Breakfast Table, and are in common use in Great Britain, in Martineau's Hymns, 1873, and others. In 1886 the D.C.L. degree was conferred upon Professor Holmes by the University of Oxford. He was a member of the Unitarian body. He died Oct 7, 1894. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
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Holmes, O. W. , p. 530, i. His Songs in Many Keys was published in 1861, his Poems, 1869, and the Cambridge edition of his Complete Poetical Works, 1895. Additional hymns of his have come into common use of late, including:—
1. Land where the banners wave last in the sun. [American National Hymn.] Appeared in his Songs in Many Keys, 1861 (7th ed. 1864, p. 289) as "Freedom, our Queen."
2. Lord, Thou hast led us as of old. [Promised Unity.] In his Before the Curfew and other Poems, chiefly occasional, Boston, 1888, as "An hymn set forth to bo sung by the Great Assembly at Newtown [Mass.]." In the Complete Poetical Works it is dated 1886. The hymn "Soon shall the slumbering morn awake," in Hymns for Church and Home, Boston, 1895, is composed of stanzas v.-vii.
3. Our Father, while our hearts unlearn The creeds that wrong Thy name. [Fruits of the Spirit.] Written for the 25th Anniversary Reorganization of the Poston Young Men's Christian Union, May 31, 1893. In his Complete Poetical Works, 1895, p. 298, Horder's Worship Song, 1905, and other collections.
4. Thou gracious [God] Power Whose mercy lends. [Reunion.] "Written for the annual meeting of the famous class '29, Harvard University, in 1869. ln the Methodist Hymn Book, 1904, it begins "Thou gracious God, Whose mercy lends." [Rev. L. F. Benson, D.D.]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
Oliver Wendell Holmes
