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Showing posts with label Hymn study. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hymn study. Show all posts
Sunday, July 26, 2026

Consolation

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Charles Albert Tindley wrote the words and music of Consolation . It is also listed as “Arr. by Wm. D. Smith.” The song was copyrighted in ...
Sunday, July 19, 2026

God’s Wonderful Book Divine

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“What light is this shining so brightly for me?” Why, it is none other than “God’s Wonderful Book Divine.” What hope for the traveler, what ...
Sunday, July 12, 2026

Preach the word

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2 Timothy 4:2 preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. 1. Preach t...
Sunday, July 05, 2026

A Baptismal Hymn

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Though I have not found a scan of the book, the hymn below on baptism is supposed to have appeared in Hymns and Spiritual Songs by Samuel H...
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Sunday, June 28, 2026

The Royal Invitation

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The song The Royal Invitation (391, The Sacred Harp, 2012 Cooper Edition ) was first published in The Sacred Harp in 1907. The tune was wr...
Sunday, June 21, 2026

The castle of the human heart

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“The heart taken” is Hymn 101, Book One in Olney Hymns – on the text [Luke] “Chap. xi. 21, 22.” [i] When a strong man armed keepeth his pa...
Sunday, June 14, 2026

The hour of my departure’s come

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The following hymn is “Hymn V” of five hymns included in the back of Translations and Paraphrases, in Verse, of Several Passages of Sacred S...
Sunday, June 07, 2026

Our Mortal State

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Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain? What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he del...
Tuesday, June 02, 2026

Search After Happiness

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I found the following in some old files, which I apparently wrote in June of 2020. The Search After Happiness The following hymn is an exc...
Sunday, May 31, 2026

Far From My Thoughts

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THIS LINK contains a recording of Emily Creel leading Westford (“Far from my thoughts, vain world begone”) at the Rusk County Singing Conv...
Sunday, May 24, 2026

The sinner

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The following is Hymn XXXVIII in Hymns, &c. Composed on Various Subjects , by Joseph Hart (London: J. Everingham, 1759, pp. 54-56). The...
Sunday, May 17, 2026

The Gospel

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Philip Doddridge wrote the following hymn, which is titled “Fruitful Showers, Emblems of the Salutary Effects of the Gospel.” The idea is de...
Sunday, May 10, 2026

Pisgah

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Awhile back, I looked at my email inbox and noticed I had 58 unread emails. The number 58 made me think of  Pisgah , the tune on page number...
Sunday, May 03, 2026

Morning Has Broken

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I struggle to see “Morning Has Broken” as a Christian or church hymn – not because of the words, but because I first knew it as sung by Cat ...
Sunday, April 26, 2026

To Be With Christ

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The author of the following hymn is unknown to me. At present, I earliest I have found it thus far is in The Christian Lyre (Joshua Leavitt...