Peace, what a precious sound! Tell it the world around

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Peace, what a precious sound! Tell it the world around

Author: J. F. Elwin
Tune: ITALIAN HYMN
Published in 2 hymnals

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	Then Sings My Soul (Hymns of Faith and P…

Author: J. F. Elwin

Elwin, John Fountain, F.R.C.S., son of Col. Fountain Elwin, was born in Sicily, June 8, 1809; was Medical Superintendent of the British Medical Mission from 1872 to 1885; and died Nov. 17, 1890. A few of his hymns are in the Enlarged London Hymn Book, 1873, including "Peace, what a precious sound" (Peace with God). --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907) Go to person page >

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First Line:	Peace, what a precious sound! Tell it the world around
Author:	J. F. Elwin
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

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ITALIAN HYMN

Felice de Giardini (b. Turin, Italy, 1716; d. Moscow, Russia, 1796) composed ITALIAN HYMN in three parts for this text at the request of Selina Shirley, the famous evangelically minded Countess of Huntingdon. Giardini was living in London at the time and contributed this tune and three others to Mar…

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