LilyPond was screwing up the horizontal layout because your parts failed dozens and dozens of bar checks. You had dotted 8th notes throughout, in mixed chords with 8th notes.
I dug up a copy of this hymn online to see what you were trying to do. First, it opens with one beat of anacrusis, I think is the technical term, before the start of bar 1. You aligned everything with the start of bar 1, so you would have had to put five beats in bar 1 to get that to come out right. So what you want to do to start is change the composition to start at bar 0 and shift everything back one beat. I recommend doing this with the dialog boxes to achieve perfect precision. Composition -> Change Composition Start and End, and then select all three segments and Segment -> Set Start Time. Set them starting at 0 4 0. You'll also have to move the tempo and time signature back to start at bar 0 instead of 1. Now you need two layers for each of the two organ parts. This turned out to be too messy to edit in place, using the new "add layer" function. I created two new temporary tracks to contain these layer segments, so I could edit them side by side instead of overlapping, and then I put it all back together onto two tracks after ironing out the kinks. So now you have to go through the parts one by one to find the bits with overlapping voices, and straighten all of that out. In bar 1 of the right hand part, one voice goes 4 4 8 8 4, and the other voice goes 4 4 4 4. Whenever possible, you want to write chords in the same voice, so they can be handled as proper chords. (You can fake the appearance of chords with notes in different voices, but it won't come out well most of the time. True chords have to be in the same voice, ie. the same layer, ie. the same segment.) So this gets us three chords of duration 4 in the top layer, and r4 r4 4 r4 in the bottom layer, to contain that quarter note that conflicts with the 8 8 in the other voice. A little stem flipping, some slur direction placement, and we're on the way. It's not bad, but it's tedious. In the end, move the purple segment back to its track of origin, and delete the temporary track. Here, I got the right hand organ part 90% of the way finished. I was going by a slightly different score, and in the sections where I had to create new notation from the ground up to untangle conflicts, I wrote it differently from what you had. You'll figure it out. I leave the rest of this to you as an exercise. I've got the left hand part expanded out to two tracks, primed for detangling the mixed up voices. I'll help further if you need it, but it saves me time and gets you practical experience if you finish this exercise on your own. I also took the liberty of setting up staff group brackets. -- D. Michael McIntyre
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