The Best Church HymnsLouis FitzGerald Benson Westminster Press, 1898 - 58 páginas |
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... fails either to enlighten or convince ; and this is because the writer , or , it may be , the reader , does not clearly distin- guish the two points of view from which hymns may be regarded : for hymnody is at once a branch of ...
... fails either to enlighten or convince ; and this is because the writer , or , it may be , the reader , does not clearly distin- guish the two points of view from which hymns may be regarded : for hymnody is at once a branch of ...
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... failed to attain any real position in her hymnody , that result may be said to mark the end of their career as hymns . Such hymns , having been actually tried by the only com- petent tribunal , have , for some reason or other , possibly ...
... failed to attain any real position in her hymnody , that result may be said to mark the end of their career as hymns . Such hymns , having been actually tried by the only com- petent tribunal , have , for some reason or other , possibly ...
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... fail . They fail in other things , but they begin to fail at the very foundation ; for in the worship of God there is no other foun- dation laid than is already laid , —in reverence . And a hymn may not be so gross as to be irreverent ...
... fail . They fail in other things , but they begin to fail at the very foundation ; for in the worship of God there is no other foun- dation laid than is already laid , —in reverence . And a hymn may not be so gross as to be irreverent ...
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... fail , and comforts flee , Help of the helpless , O abide with me . 2 Swift to its close ebbs out life's little day ; Earth's joys grow dim , its glories pass away ; Change and decay in all around I see ; O Thou who changest not , abide ...
... fail , and comforts flee , Help of the helpless , O abide with me . 2 Swift to its close ebbs out life's little day ; Earth's joys grow dim , its glories pass away ; Change and decay in all around I see ; O Thou who changest not , abide ...
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... of want remove : Who can faint , while such a river Ever flows their thirst to assuage ? Grace , which , like the Lord the Giver , Never fails from age to age . 3 Round each habitation hovering , See the cloud and 34 The Best Church Hymns .
... of want remove : Who can faint , while such a river Ever flows their thirst to assuage ? Grace , which , like the Lord the Giver , Never fails from age to age . 3 Round each habitation hovering , See the cloud and 34 The Best Church Hymns .
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Abbey of Cluny Abide adore ages past best Church hymns best hymns blessèd blessings born bymn Charles Wesley Christ Christian Church of England clergyman Cowper cross have taken crown Him Lord death died earth English eternal glorious glory Gospel Gospel Magazine grace happy home Hark heart heaven heavenly Heber Help in ages Henry Francis Lyte herald angels sing Holy hymn-books Hymnal hymnody Isaiah Jerusalem the golden Jesus Jesus shall reign John Cennick John Newton joys Lamb Lamb of God light literary excellence liturgical Lyte Methodist Name of Jesus Neale wrote Nearer to Thee nearer waters new-born King NOTES.-Verse o'er Olney Hymns poet praise to Thee prayer printed proclaim Psalm quality of reverence reign where'er Rock of Ages Saviour soul spiritual reality sung Thine thirty-two Thou art throne to-day the standard Toplady untrue hymns Verse Watts Watts's where'er the sun wrote this hymn Zion
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Página 21 - HOW sweet the Name of Jesus sounds In a believer's ear ! It soothes his sorrows, heals his wounds, And drives away his fear. 2 It makes the wounded spirit whole, And calms the troubled breast ; 'Tis manna to the hungry soul, And to the weary rest.
Página 33 - People and realms of every tongue Dwell on His love with sweetest song ; And infant voices shall proclaim Their early blessings on His Name. 4 Blessings abound where'er He reigns; The prisoner leaps to lose his chains, The weary find eternal rest, And all the sons of want are blest.
Página 38 - COME let us join our cheerful songs With angels round the throne. Ten thousand thousand are their tongues, But all their joys are one. 2 "Worthy the Lamb that died," they cry, "To be exalted thus:" " Worthy the Lamb,
Página 41 - HAIL to the Lord's Anointed, Great David's greater Son ; Hail, in the time appointed, His reign on earth begun ; He comes to break oppression, To set the captive free, To take away transgression, And rule in equity.
Página 46 - GUIDE me, O Thou Great Jehovah, Pilgrim through this barren land ; I am weak, but Thou art mighty ; Hold me with Thy powerful hand ; Bread of Heaven ! Feed me till I want no more.
Página 36 - HARK, the glad sound ! the Saviour comes, The Saviour promised long : Let every heart prepare a throne, And every voice a song.
Página 54 - Sweet fields, beyond the swelling flood, Stand dressed in living green ; So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan rolled between.
Página 7 - Thou, O Christ, art all I want ; More than all in Thee I find : Raise the fallen, cheer the faint, Heal the sick, and lead the blind. Just and holy is Thy Name ; I am all unrighteousness ; False and full of sin I am, Thou art full of truth and grace.
Página 40 - Ye chosen seed of Israel's race, Ye ransomed from the fall, Hail him who saves you by his grace, And crown him Lord of all. 3 Sinners, whose love can ne'er forget The wormwood and the gall; Go. spread your trophies at his feet, And crown him Lord of all.
Página 50 - O Hope of every contrite heart, O Joy of all the meek, To those who fall, how kind Thou art ! How good to those who seek...