Hymn-Book of
The Hymn-Book of the Modern Church: Brief studies of hymns and hymn-writers
作者：Gregory, Arthur E. (Arthur Edwin), -1912
体例：题 章数：101
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章节目录
共 101 题- BRIEF STUDIES OF HYMNS AND HYMN-WRITERS
- THE THIRTY-FOURTH FERNLEY LECTURE
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- THE HYMN-BOOK OF THE MODERN CHURCH
- INTRODUCTION
- In this lecture I shall attempt—
- Both might have ended with
- When I survey the wondrous Cross
- So Cowper prays—
- So Keble sings—
- Jesu, Lover of my soul
- Personally I should not touch even Faber’s
- Teach our faint desires to rise
- Sing we merrily unto God our Strength.[31]
- God made Man for man to die
- SABBATH HYMN
- LITERATURE
- I.—Sixteenth Century
- THE LAMENTATION OF A SINNER
- PSALM XIV
- PSALM XIX
- PSALM XCIII
- His version of Ps. lxvi. also has some good lines. It begins—
- Finis. Finis.[68]
- II.—Seventeenth Century
- FROM DEATH TO LIFE
- MORNING
- EVENING
- ST. MATTHEW’S DAY
- THE GIFT
- Here is a verse from his ‘Song of Praise for the Birth of Christ’—
- One of his best hymns, perhaps the very best, is
- A GENERAL SONG OF PRAISE TO ALMIGHTY GOD
- The following verses are a fair specimen—
- A HYMN TO GOD THE FATHER
- LOVE
- PRAISE
- THE CALL
- BEGGING
- The following for Trinity Sunday is very bold—
- HYMN FOR ADVENT; OR CHRIST’S COMING TO JERUSALEM IN TRIUMPH
- To say nothing of
- I.—The School of Watts
- A NEW SONG TO THE LAMB THAT WAS SLAIN
- When I survey the wondrous Cross
- Ah, lovely appearance of death
- There is a land of pure delight
- The hymns by which he is, and will be, known, are—
- And
- Some of his forgotten verses have real epigrammatic force, e.g.—
- Dr. Watts was her acknowledged model. She cries—
- II.—Hymns of the Methodist Revival
- In his _Journal_, John Wesley records, under date December 15, 1788—
- 1.—Hymns of the Christian Year
- In the same metre, and not inferior, are the hymns for Easter—
- There are some good verses in the Whit Sunday hymn—
- The popular hymn beginning
- 2. Hymns on the Lord’s Supper.[121]
- 3. Hymns of the Calvinistic Controversy.
- And again—
- 4. Hymns of the Methodist Evangel
- And again—
- Faber’s exquisite lines, set side by side with such a hymn as Wesley’s
- The popular hymn
- 5. Hymns of the Methodist Society
- This is followed by his version of Zinzendorf’s hymn
- HYMN TO GOD THE SANCTIFIER
- These two verses belong to the very extensive series of
- 6. Hymns on Passages of Holy Scripture
- Thou, Lord, art a shield for me.[153]
- On the words ‘merciful and gracious’ in Exod. xxxiv. 6 he comments
- III.—The Olney Hymns
- Newton’s best are—
- And the simple Spiritual songs—
- THE CONTRITE HEART
- THE WAITING SOUL
- PRAYER FOR PATIENCE
- A LIVING AND A DEAD FAITH
- LONGING TO BE WITH CHRIST
- It is the pastor’s heart which takes up the very words of his friend—
- IV.—Addison, Toplady, and Others
- His best-known hymn is in every collection—
- Thou dear Redeemer, dying Lamb
- Cennick is often spoken of as the author of
- I.—Anglican Hymns
- Keble’s vision was
- II.—Free Church Hymns
- Montgomery has also given us a fine Christmas carol—
- CHRIST THE PURIFIER
- I have already referred to Mr. Gill’s national hymn
- III.—Roman Catholic Hymns
- I will close this slight sketch with two verses by Cardinal Manning:
- CONCLUSION
- We know no distinction of creed or Church when we sing—
- APPENDIX
- FOOTNOTES
- GENERAL INDEX
- INDEX OF HYMNS AND VERSES
- THE END
- Transcriber’s Notes