From Thee All Skill and Science Flow

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1 From thee all skill and science flow,
all pity, care, and love,
all calm and courage, faith and hope:
O pour them from above.

2 Impart them, Lord, to each and all,
as each and all shall need,
to rise, like incense, each to thee,
in noble thought and deed.

3 And hasten, Lord, that perfect day
when pain and death shall cease,
and thy just rule shall fill the earth
with health and light and peace.

Source: Ancient and Modern: hymns and songs for refreshing worship #513

Author: Charles Kingsley

Kingsley, Charles, M.A., son of Charles Kingsley, of Battramsley, in the New Forest, was born June 12. 1819. at Home Vicarage, Devon. In 1838 he entered Magdalene Coll. Cambridge, and graduated as first class in classics, and senior optime. Subsequently Rector of Eversley 1814-1875; Canon of Chester 1869-1873; and Canon of Westminster 1873-1875. He held also other important appointments. He died at Eversley, Jan. 23, 1875. Canon Kingsley's prose works are too well known to be enumerated here, and his poetical productions have little in common with hymnology. Three of his pieces have come into use as hymns:— 1. Accept this building, gracious Lord. [Hospitals.] "Mrs. Kingsley's account of this hymn is:— "On the 4th o… Go to person page >

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Tune

HOLY TRINITY (Barnby)


ST. PETER (Reinagle)

Composed by Alexander R. Reinagle (b. Brighton, Sussex, England, 1799; d. Kidlington, Oxfordshire, England, 1877), ST. PETER was published as a setting for Psalm 118 in Reinagle's Psalm Tunes for the Voice and Pianoforte (c. 1836). The tune first appeared with Newton's text in Hymns Ancient and Mode…

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BELMONT (Gardiner)

This tune has been mis-attributed to various other composers, but is clearly the work of the above-named composer.

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Media

The Book of Common Praise: being the hymn book of The Church of England in Canada (revised 1938) #298
The Cyber Hymnal #1647
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Instances

Instances (1 - 14 of 14)

Ambassador Hymnal #301

Text

Ancient and Modern #513

Anglican Hymns Old and New (Rev. and Enl.) #212

Church Hymnal, Fifth Edition #512

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Common Praise #345

Hymns Ancient and Modern, New Standard Edition #286

Hymns Ancient and Modern, New Standard Edition #460

Hymns and Psalms #389

Hymns of the Saints #89

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Rejoice in the Lord #28

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The Cyber Hymnal #1647

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The Hymnal 1982 #566

Hymns for Today's Church (2nd ed.) #310

The Irish Presbyterian Hymbook #365

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