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... simple : hymns are important and deserve our careful study . Yet in spite of the hun- dreds of books written about hymns , we have shied away from essential , fundamental questions about them . What do they mean ? What do they say ? In ...
... simple : hymns are important and deserve our careful study . Yet in spite of the hun- dreds of books written about hymns , we have shied away from essential , fundamental questions about them . What do they mean ? What do they say ? In ...
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... simple or just like prose . Hymns , as poetry , work within strict formal constraints— but these are familiar patterns of regular nines , much simpler than sonnets . Hymns , as poetry , make use of networks of image and meaning — but ...
... simple or just like prose . Hymns , as poetry , work within strict formal constraints— but these are familiar patterns of regular nines , much simpler than sonnets . Hymns , as poetry , make use of networks of image and meaning — but ...
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... simple patterns of the metrical psalms . While we have countless tunes today , the patterns , perhaps coded in the back of your hymnal , are still relatively few . Rhyme is standard , even in the late twentieth century ; it goes with ...
... simple patterns of the metrical psalms . While we have countless tunes today , the patterns , perhaps coded in the back of your hymnal , are still relatively few . Rhyme is standard , even in the late twentieth century ; it goes with ...
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... simple it hardly deserves the name . It maintains that hymns , as they are important , can and should make clear , fine sense to anybody who reads or sings them . It further demonstrates that hymns — for one reason or another — often ...
... simple it hardly deserves the name . It maintains that hymns , as they are important , can and should make clear , fine sense to anybody who reads or sings them . It further demonstrates that hymns — for one reason or another — often ...
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... simple , is actu- ally a Little puzzle . " Joy to the World , " originally closed with a semicolon , should be a complete grammatical unit , but there's no verb . We properly ask , What joy ? Why this joy ? and What does " joy to the ...
... simple , is actu- ally a Little puzzle . " Joy to the World , " originally closed with a semicolon , should be a complete grammatical unit , but there's no verb . We properly ask , What joy ? Why this joy ? and What does " joy to the ...
Contents
14 | |
WATTSS HYMNS AND SPIRITUAL SONGS | 29 |
CHARLES WESLEYS DIFFERENT SONG | 39 |
Christ the Lord Is Risen Today | 53 |
THE BEST OF WESLEY | 65 |
OLNEY HYMNS | 80 |
LITERARY | 98 |
OTHER NINETEENTHCENTURY HYMNS IN ENGLISH | 119 |
REPRESENTATIVE TRANSLATIONS OF GERMAN HYMNS | 133 |
THIRDWORLDLIBERATION AND EXPERIMENTAL | 159 |
MODERN TRADITIONAL HYMNODY | 182 |
AFTERWORD | 202 |
Common terms and phrases
activity adore Alabaré alteration Amazing grace archaism beginning biblical blessings blood Charles Wesley Christ is alive Christian congregational Cross Crucifixion dark death divine love earth Emmanuel Episcopalians eternal experience explain expression faith familiar fears final stanza fourth stanza glory God's grace heart heaven Heber herald angels Herald Angels Sing holy human hymn texts hymn writers hymnals hymnody idea imagery Isaac Watts Israel Jesus John Mason Neale King language last line last stanza Lord Lutheran meaning metaphor Methodist modern name of Jesus nature Olaf College Olney Hymns original pattern picture poet poetic poetry praise pray Presbyterian psalm recalls rhymes Satan Savior Saviour Bleed second line second stanza seems sense simple sing singers sins song sorrow soul spirit stars suggests sung thee theological thine things third line third stanza Thomas Sunday Thou tion traditional understanding Watts Watts's Wesley Wesley's words worship
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Page 85 - 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.
Page 99 - Brightest and best of the sons of the morning! Dawn on our darkness and lend us thine aid! Star of the East, the horizon adorning, Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid!
Page 24 - A thousand ages in thy sight Are like an evening gone; Short as the watch that ends the night Before the rising sun.
Page 93 - Deep in unfathomable mines Of never- failing skill, He treasures up His bright designs And works His sovereign will. 3 Ye fearful saints, fresh courage take ; The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head. 4 Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust Him for His grace ; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.
Page 48 - Prince of peace ! Hail, the Sun of righteousness ! Light and life to all He brings, Risen with healing in His wings : Mild He lays His glory by, Born that man no more may die ; Born to raise the sons of earth ; Born to give them second birth.
Page 74 - And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
Page 47 - Glory to the new-born KINO. Amen Christmas. Hymn 48. (SECOND TuNE). X "Glory to GOD in the highest, and on earth peace, goodwill toward men." HARK I the herald angels sing Glory to the new-born KING, Peace on earth, and mercy mild, GOD and sinners reconciled.
Page 90 - See, the streams of living waters, Springing from eternal Love, Well supply thy sons and daughters, And all fear 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.
Page 15 - JOY to the world ! the Lord is come ; Let earth receive her King ; Let every heart prepare him room, And heaven and nature sing. 2 Joy to the earth ! the Saviour reigns ; Let men their songs employ ; While fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains. Repeat the sounding joy. 3 No more let sins and sorrows grow, Nor thorns infest the ground ; He comes to make his blessings flow Par as the curse is found.
Page 168 - Lift Every Voice and Sing Lift every voice and sing Till earth and heaven ring, Ring with the harmonies of Liberty; Let our rejoicing rise High as the listening skies, Let it resound loud as the rolling sea. Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us, Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us. Facing the rising sun of our new day begun, Let us march on till victory is won.