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O Thou, the primal fount of life and peace

Author: John Sterling Appears in 6 hymnals Used With Tune: PAX DEI

PAX DEI

Appears in 119 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Rev. J. B. Dykes Incipit: 13554 31321 17135 Used With Text: O Thou, the primal fount of life and peace

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O Thou, the primal fount of life and peace

Author: John Sterling Hymnal: Isles of Shoals Hymn Book and Candle Light Service #151 (1908) Languages: English Tune Title: PAX DEI

O Thou, the primal fount of life and peace

Hymnal: Hymns of the Spirit #166 (1864) Languages: English

O thou, the primal fount of life and peace

Author: John Sterling Hymnal: Unitarian Service Book, and Hymns for Church and Home. Abridged ed. #d328 (1904)

1823 - 1876 Person Name: Rev. J. B. Dykes Composer of "PAX DEI" in Isles of Shoals Hymn Book and Candle Light Service 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 Sterling

1806 - 1844 Author of "O Thou, the primal fount of life and peace" in Isles of Shoals Hymn Book and Candle Light Service Sterling was born at Kames Castle, Bute, July 20, 1806, and died at Ventnor, Isle of Wight, Sep. 18, 1844. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907 ================ Sterling, J., p. 1595, ii. (Under "When up to nightly skies," &c.) Another of his hymns which was given in the American Hymns of the Spirit, 1864 and Martineau's Hymns of Praise and Prayer, 1873, No. 31, "0 Source divine and Life of all" (Reverence and Love), has passed into a few modern American collections, including The Pilgrim Hymnal, 1904. It is dated 1840. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)