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O thou within whose sure control

Author: Kathryn T. Munro Appears in 3 hymnals Topics: For Those that Travel and Absent Friends Used With Tune: MELITA

MELITA

Appears in 466 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Rev. John B. Dykes Incipit: 13355 66551 27554 Used With Text: O thou within whose sure control

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O Thou within whose sure control

Hymnal: The Hymnary of the United Church of Canada #453 (1930) Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Topics: The Life in Christ Pilgrimage, Protection, and Guidance Languages: English Tune Title: MELITA

O thou within whose sure control

Author: Kathryn T. Munro Hymnal: The Book of Common Praise #302 (1939) Topics: For Those that Travel and Absent Friends Tune Title: MELITA

Hear thou, O Lord, a nation's prayer

Author: Kathryn T. Munro Hymnal: Divine Service Book for the Armed Forces #d163 (1950) First Line: O thou within whose sure control Languages: English

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John Bacchus Dykes

1823 - 1876 Person Name: John Bacchus Dykes, 1823 - 1876 Composer of "MELITA" in The Hymnary of the United Church of Canada 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

Kathryn T. Munro

1884 - 1964 Author of "O thou within whose sure control" in The Book of Common Praise Munro, Kathryn. (Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, July 9, 1884--January 21, 1964, Toronto, Ontario). Anglican. About 1910 she married J. Freeman Tupper, an Anglican priest stationed near her home in Nova Scotia. He served as a Canadian Army chaplain on the Western Front (1916-1919), then at Camp Borden, Ont. (1920-1923), moving on to pastorates in Sutton, Ont. (1924-1927) and Toronto (1927-1937), where he died. She continued to publish articles and books of verse under her maiden name, culminating in Collected Poems (Toronto: Burns and MacEachern, 1961). Her four stanzas (written 1928) beginning "O Thou within whose sure control" share the metre of "Eternal Father, strong to save" and were paired with ti in the United Church Hymnary (1930) and the Anglican Book of Common Praise (1938), only to fall out of use as air travel came to seem routine, rather than the awesome, dangerous adventure it was to her generation. --Hugh D. McKellar, DNAH Archives