The Hymn Lover: An Account of the Rise And Growth of English Hymnody
The Hymn Lover: An Account of the Rise And Growth of English Hymnody
W Garrett William Garrett Horder
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But many an author in our day has had the joy of knowing that his hymns have been warmly welcomed by the Church, and that they have risen in choral song from the lips of devout worshippers. There are many hymnists, 212 THE BYMN LOVEB. happily still spared to us, who must rejoice in the thought that scarcely a Sunday passes in which their hymns do not both kindle and express the devout feelings of men in a multitude of churches in this and other English- speaking lands, many of them heing widely... separated in doctrine, in ritual, in ecclesiastical forms, from that to which they themselves belong. In many a case hymns are sung in assemblies in whose worship their authors would scarcely care to join, and whose doctrines they heartily con- demn. The words of Dean, and Bishop, and Cardinal, are used in lowly conventicles where their stately canonicals would seem quite out of place, whilst, on the other hand, the hymns of many an unadorned Layman belonging to the simpler Free Churches are sung by white-robed choristers and priests under the fretted roofs of venerable cathedrals.
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