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This child we dedicate

Author: Anon. Appears in 94 hymnals First Line: This child we dedicate to thee Topics: Baptism; Children; Church Ordinances of; Ordinances; Sacraments Used With Tune: HEBRON

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MARYTON

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 423 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Henry Percy Smith Tune Sources: Church Hymns with Tunes (London: 1874) Tune Key: E Flat Major Incipit: 33343 22255 43117 Used With Text: This Child We Dedicate to Thee
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[This child we dedicate to Thee]

Appears in 654 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Henry K. Oliver Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 33343 55434 44334 Used With Text: This Child We Dedicate to Thee
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HEBRON

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 610 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Lowell Mason, 1792-1872 Tune Key: B Flat Major Incipit: 53565 67117 23176 Used With Text: This Child We Dedicate to Thee

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This Child We Dedicate to Thee

Author: Samuel Gilman Hymnal: Yes, Lord! #339 (1982) Lyrics: 1 This child we dedicate to Thee, O God of grace and purity! In Thy great love its life prolong, Shield it, we pray, from sin and wrong. 2 O may Thy Spirit gently draw Its willing soul to keep Thy law; May virtue, piety, and truth Dawn even with its dawning youth. Amen. Topics: Baptism and Dedication Languages: English Tune Title: [This child we dedicate to Thee]
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This Child We Dedicate to Thee

Author: Samuel Gilman Hymnal: Sing Joyfully #612 (1989) Lyrics: 1 This child we dedicate to Thee, O God of grace and purity! In Thy great love its life prolong, Shield it, we pray, from sin and wrong. 2 O may Thy Spirit gently draw Its willing soul to keep Thy law; May virture, piety, and truth Dawn even with its dawning youth. Topics: Children's Hymns; Home and Family; Promises Languages: English Tune Title: [This child we dedicate to Thee]

This Child We Dedicate

Author: Sam Gilman Hymnal: Union Hymnal, Songs and Prayers for Jewish Worship. 3rd ed. Revised and enlarged. #240 (1948) First Line: This child we dedicate to Thee Topics: Blessing the Child Languages: English Tune Title: [This child we dedicate to Thee]

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Anonymous

Person Name: Unknown Author of "This Child We Dedicate to Thee" in The Lutheran Hymnal 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.

William B. Bradbury

1816 - 1868 Composer of "ZEPHYR" in The Evangelical Hymnal William Bachelder Bradbury USA 1816-1868. Born at York, ME, he was raised on his father's farm, with rainy days spent in a shoe-shop, the custom in those days. He loved music and spent spare hours practicing any music he could find. In 1830 the family moved to Boston, where he first saw and heard an organ and piano, and other instruments. He became an organist at 15. He attended Dr. Lowell Mason's singing classes, and later sang in the Bowdoin Street church choir. Dr. Mason became a good friend. He made $100/yr playing the organ, and was still in Dr. Mason's choir. Dr. Mason gave him a chance to teach singing in Machias, ME, which he accepted. He returned to Boston the following year to marry Adra Esther Fessenden in 1838, then relocated to Saint John, New Brunswick. Where his efforts were not much appreciated, so he returned to Boston. He was offered charge of music and organ at the First Baptist Church of Brooklyn. That led to similar work at the Baptist Tabernacle, New York City, where he also started a singing class. That started singing schools in various parts of the city, and eventually resulted in music festivals, held at the Broadway Tabernacle, a prominent city event. He conducted a 1000 children choir there, which resulted in music being taught as regular study in public schools of the city. He began writing music and publishing it. In 1847 he went with his wife to Europe to study with some of the music masters in London and also Germany. He attended Mendelssohn funeral while there. He went to Switzerland before returning to the states, and upon returning, commenced teaching, conducting conventions, composing, and editing music books. In 1851, with his brother, Edward, he began manufacturring Bradbury pianos, which became popular. Also, he had a small office in one of his warehouses in New York and often went there to spend time in private devotions. As a professor, he edited 59 books of sacred and secular music, much of which he wrote. He attended the Presbyterian church in Bloomfield, NJ, for many years later in life. He contracted tuberculosis the last two years of his life. John Perry

John Bacchus Dykes

1823 - 1876 Person Name: Dr. J. B. Dykes, 1823-1876 Composer of "CALM" in Methodist Hymn and Tune Book 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
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