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Take My Life, O Father; Mould It

Author: Unknown Appears in 10 hymnals Matching Instances: 10 Used With Tune: [Take my life, O Father; mould it]

[Take my heart, O Father! mold it]

Appears in 236 hymnals Matching Instances: 1 Composer and/or Arranger: J. B. Dykes Incipit: 33332 34533 33332 Used With Text: St. Sylvester

Meter: 8.7.8.7 Appears in 193 hymnals Matching Instances: 1 Composer and/or Arranger: John A. Stevenson Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 35453 52535 42171 Used With Text: Take My Life, O Father, Mold It

[Take my life, O Father; mould it]

Appears in 313 hymnals Matching Instances: 1 Composer and/or Arranger: I. B. Woodbury Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 33312 23356 53132 Used With Text: Take My Life, O Father; Mould It

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Take my heart, Oh Father! mold it

Hymnal: Christian Hymn and Tune Book, for use in Churches, and for Social and Family Devotions #683 (1870) Languages: English

Take My Life, O Father, Mold It

Hymnal: Praise for the Lord (Expanded Edition) #545 (1997) Meter: 8.7.8.7 Topics: Prayer Petitions Scripture: Isaiah 28:16 Languages: English Tune Title: GALUPPI

Take my heart, O Father! mold it

Hymnal: The Christian hymnal #492 (1882)

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Person Name: Unknown Author of "Take My Life, O Father; Mould It" in Christian Hymns In some hymnals, the editors noted that a hymn's author is unknown to them, and so this artificial "person" entry is used to reflect that fact. Obviously, the hymns attributed to "Author Unknown" "Unknown" or "Anonymous" could have been written by many people over a span of many centuries.

John Bacchus Dykes

1823 - 1876 Person Name: J. B. Dykes Composer of "[Take my heart, O Father! mold it]" in The Christian Sunday School Hymnal 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