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Great Cause of all things, Source of life

Great Cause of all things, Source of life

Author: Sidney Dyer
Published in 9 hymnals

Author: Sidney Dyer

Dyer, Sidney, who served in the U. S. Army from 1831 to c. 1840, is a native of White Creek, Washington County, New York, where he was born in 1814. On leaving the army he was ordained a Baptist Minister in 1842, and acted first as a Missionary to the Choctaws, then as Pastor in Indianapolis, Indiana (1852), and as Secretary to the Baptist Publication Society, Phila. (1859). He has published sundry works, and in the Southwestern Psalmist, 1851, 16 of his hymns are found. The following are later and undated:— 1. Go, preach the blest salvation. Missions. In the Baptist Praise Book, 1871, and The Baptist Hymn & Tune Book, 1871. 2. Great Framer [Maker] of unnumbered worlds. National Humiliation. In the Boston Unitarian Hymn [an… Go to person page >

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First Line: Great Cause of all things, Source of life
Author: Sidney Dyer
Copyright: Public Domain

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A Collection of Psalms and Hymns for Social and Private Worship #LV

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A Collection of Psalms and Hymns for the use of Universalist Societies and Families (13th ed.) #172

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A Collection of Psalms and Hymns, for Social and Private Worship #38

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A Collection of Psalms and Hymns, for Social and Private Worship (Rev. ed. with supplement) #38

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A Selection of Hymns and Psalms for Social and Private Worship (2nd ed. Enl. and Imp.) #40

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A Selection of Hymns and Psalms for Social and Private Worship (6th ed.) #40

A Selection of Hymns and Psalms, for Social and Private Worship. (11th ed.) #40

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A Selection of Hymns and Psalms #40

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