EDITORS' NOTE Each generation of Christians emphasizes a particular aspect of the everlasting Gospel. Our own lays the stress upon the Kingdom of God. We have been led to believe that, as the Kingdom was the burden of our Lord's message, it should be the burden of His Church's prayer and praise. This book is an attempt to furnish the Church with a hymnal in which Christian communion with God is viewed as fellowship with the Father and the Son in the establishment of the Kingdom. The editors have sought to make a small collection of large hymns. We have carefully examined several thousand hymns which have found a place in the worship of English-speaking churches during the last two hundred years. We have respected the sacred canon of Christian experience. We have felt that the older and the more widely used a hymn is, the more suited is it to common worship, and the better adapted to manifest and to promote the unity of the Church of Christ. We have striven, however, to include only hymns which are poetically beautiful, which express a normal and healthy spiritual experience, contain no divisive theology, and are specifically Christian in religon. The text of each hymn has been traced back, as far as we were able, to its first edition. All changes have been carefully noted. If the author has sanctioned a change, the fact is indicated by the presence of two dates following his name. We have introduced no changes into familiar hymns save in a few instances where we have restored the author's original text and substituted it for the altered form which editors have published. We have also attempted to give the correct authorship or source, and the date of the tunes. A small selection of children's hymns has been included because, while the editors believe that children should be taught the great hymns in the Sunday School, and so trained to join in the public worship of the Church, they also believe that in the Church service a hymn should occasionally be sung, which is especially adapted to their religious experience, in order that they may feel at home in the house of God. Such hymns often help older people to turn and become as little children. This hymnal is sent forth in the hope that it will assist the Church of to-day to praise God heartily, intelligently and sincerely, to sing with the Spirit and with the understanding hymns which utter living convictions and which consecrate those who sing them to the purpose of Jesus Christ. HENRY S. COFFIN. AMBROSE W. VERNON. Easter, 1910. Index of First Lines HYMN HYMN 291 Calm me, my God, and keep me calm., 265 190 131 442 Christ the Lord is risen to-day 81 285 286 129 98 Come, Holy Spirit, heavenly Dove.. 128 Come, Holy Spirit, heavenly Dove, with 125 180 292 Come, let us to the Lord our God... 209 169 Come, my soul, thou must be waking.. 356 398 Come unto me, ye weary. .. 208 3 Come ye disconsolate, where'er ye. 218 163 Come ye faithful, raise the strain. 87 459 273 122 95 448 Day by day we magnify Thee... 487 364 375 Dear Lord and Father of mankind 263 353 Dear Lord and Master mine..... 321 170 126 Eternal Ruler of the ceaseless round.. 148 352 486 106 149 Father, again in Jesus' name we meet. 411 144 Father, hear Thy children's call. 219 132 Father of love, our Guide and Friend. 228 133 Father, to Thee we look in all our.... 253 220 51 Father, whate'er of earthly bliss. 260 55 74 192 39 HYMN HYMN 127 412 2 How firm a foundation, ye saints 272 269 306 How sweet the name of Jesus sounds.. 104 476 298 433 167 I am trusting Thee, Lord Jesus. 214 224 117 I heard the voice of Jesus say 116 262 143 I love to tell the story. 480 85 62 I thank Thee, Lord, for strength. 342 see 233 113 136 Immortal Love, within whose righteous 236 In heavenly love abiding.. 245 429 465 In the cross of Christ I glory. 78 In the hour of trial.. 261 45 402 It singeth low in every heart... 304 343 112 197 Jerusalem, my happy home 196 Jerusalem the golden 222 166 119 120 Jesus, holiest, tenderest, dearest Jesus, I love Thy charming name. 103 130 124 301 82 Jesus, Lord of life and glory. 207 Jesus, Lover of my soul.... 217 73 382 Jesus, name of wondrous love.. 105 90 234 184 Jesus shall reign where'er the sun. 173 488 171 101 390 Jesus, these eyes have never seen. 100 Jesus, Thou joy of loving hearts 434 Jesus, to Thy table led.... 439 42 Jesus, whelmed in fears unknown. 72 Jesus, where'er Thy people meet.. 396 89 Joy to the world, the Lord is come... 38 Judge eternal, throned in splendor. 161 Just as I am, without one plea...... 211 284 |
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