(The first 94 items are responsive readings and the like, not intended for musical use.)Ī charge to keep I have, A God to glorify … BOYLSTONĪ holy air is breathing round, A fragrance from above … NAOMIĪ mighty fortress is our God … EIN’ FESTE BURGĪ noble life, a simple faith, An open heart and hand- … HUMMELĪ parting hymn we sing Around Thy table, Lord … BOYLSTONĪ song of spring once more we sing … ARABIAĪbide with me! fast falls the eventide … EVENTIDEĪbove the hills of time the cross is gleaming … LONDONDERRYĪccording to Thy gracious word, In meek humility … BEATITUDOĪgain, as evening’s shadow falls … CANONBURYĪll beautiful the march of days … FOREST GREENĪll creatures of our God and King … LASST UNS ERFREUENĪll glory, laud, and honor, To Thee, Redeemer, King … ST. Here, in alphabetical order by first line, are the sung contents. All in all, though, it seems to be a reasonable place to start if I’m trying to study my own likes, dislikes, tastes, lacks of taste, memories and blindspots connected with hymnody. There is much in it that had a formative influence on me as a churchgoing hymn-singer, but there is also much that I have no recollection of prior to returning to the book as an adult, and occasionally there are items that clash in some way with my recollection. Christian Worship: a hymnal, jointly produced by and for the Northern Baptist Convention and the Disciples of Christ, and published in 1941, was the first hymnal I was exposed to, as it was the pew hymnal at Seattle’s University Baptist Church, where I went most Sundays from my birth in 1954 until our family left for Japan in 1967.
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