item: #1 of 15 id: 12007 author: None title: Cousin Hatty's Hymns and Twilight Stories date: None words: 8093 flesch: 93 summary: When I play with little children I must very gentle be; I must always do to others As I'd have them do to me. [Illustration: Letter H.] How beautiful it is, mamma, That God should love us all; That He should listen to their prayer, When little children call! keywords: child; day; dear; god; illustration; letter; love; mother; night cache: 12007.txt plain text: 12007.txt item: #2 of 15 id: 16455 author: Lorenz, Edmund S. (Edmund Simon) title: The Otterbein Hymnal For Use in Public and Social Worship date: None words: 75233 flesch: 94 summary: An earthly temple here we raise, Lord God, our Savior! 11s. _Desire for Purity._ Lord Jesus, I long to be perfectly whole; I want thee forever to live in my soul; Break down ev'ry idol, cast out ev'ry foe; Now wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. keywords: blood; c.m; christ; come; cross; day; death; earth; faith; father; glory; god; grace; heart; heaven; heavenly; holy; home; jesus; joy; king; l.m; land; life; light; lord; love; mercy; o lord; o'er; peace; praise; rest; salvation; savior; sing; song; soul; spirit; thee; thine; thou; throne; thy; till; tis; voice; way; word cache: 16455.txt plain text: 16455.txt item: #3 of 15 id: 16688 author: Follen, Eliza Lee Cabot title: Hymns, Songs, and Fables, for Young People date: None words: 16600 flesch: 89 summary: PAGE Suffer little children to come unto me 1 Hymn 2 Hymn for a Little Boy 3 The Lord is my Strength 5 Hymn 6 Thy Will be done 7 Sabbath Day 8 The Good Boy's Hymn on going to Bed 10 God is good 11 Evening 12 Robinson Crusoe's Hymn 13 Hymn 14 On Prayer 16 The Spirit giveth Life 17 Let little children come to me,-- keywords: 16mo; 18mo; book; boy; cents; christian; day; edition; father; god; good; heart; life; love; mother; price; rev; song; thee; thou; thoughts; thy; tis; young cache: 16688.txt plain text: 16688.txt item: #4 of 15 id: 18444 author: Brown, Theron title: The Story of the Hymns and Tunes date: None words: 124548 flesch: 76 summary: The multitude could be supplied with technical preaching and technical music for their religious wants, but they would not rise to the bait, whereas nothing so soon kindles their better emotions or so surely appeals to their better nature as even the humblest sympathetic hymn sung to a simple and stirring tune. Newton's hymn sung on the last evening of the year has its opportunity--and never fails to produce a solemn effect; but it is to the immortal music given to it in Samuel Webbe's Benevento that it owes its unique and permanent place. keywords: age; air; american; author; book; boston; century; charles; children; choral; chorus; christian; church; city; college; come; composer; country; cross; day; days; dear; death; divine; earth; england; english; faith; father; favorite; footnote; george; glory; god; good; gospel; grace; hand; harmony; heart; heaven; heavenly; henry; high; holy; home; hope; hymn; jesus; john; joy; king; land; life; light; line; little; london; lord; love; man; march; mason; mass; meetings; melody; mind; missionary; morning; mrs; music; musician; new; o'er; original; people; place; poem; poet; power; praise; prayer; rest; rev; revival; robert; sacred; saviour; school; sea; second; service; set; sing; singing; sir; song; soul; sound; spirit; stanzas; story; sunday; sung; sweet; thee; thomas; thou; thought; thy; time; tis; tune; use; verse; voice; watts; way; wesley; william; words; work; world; worship; writer; years; young cache: 18444.txt plain text: 18444.txt item: #5 of 15 id: 20476 author: Adams, John G. (John Greenleaf) title: Hymns for Christian Devotion Especially Adapted to the Universalist Denomination date: None words: 123867 flesch: 91 summary: Thou God of hope, to thee we bow, 782 Thou God of truth and love, 912 Thou, Lord, by mortal eyes unseen, 253 Thou, Lord, by strictest search hast known, 140 Thou must go forth alone, my soul, 537 Thou power supreme, whose mighty scheme, keywords: blest; c. m.; care; christ; christian; come; day; death; divine; earth; faith; father; fear; glory; god; grace; hand; hath; heart; heaven; heavenly; high; holy; home; hope; hour; jesus; joy; king; know; l. m.; life; light; lord; love; m. anonymous; m. doddridge; m. m.; m. watts; man; meet; mercy; o god; o lord; o thou; o'er; peace; power; praise; prayer; rest; rise; s. m.; sacred; saviour; shall; sin; sing; soul; spirit; sun; thee; thine; thou; throne; thy; thy god; tis; truth; voice; way; word cache: 20476.txt plain text: 20476.txt item: #6 of 15 id: 21722 author: Bridges, Robert title: A Practical Discourse on Some Principles of Hymn-Singing date: None words: 13703 flesch: 62 summary: Augustin lived before what we reckon the very beginnings of modern music, with nothing to entice and delight his ears in the choir but the simplest ecclesiastical chant and hymn-tune sung in unison. It is possible that such music would not have had any ethical significance to him, bad or good. keywords: book; church; english; good; hymns; melodies; melody; music; nos; rhythm; singing; song; time; tunes; use; words cache: 21722.txt plain text: 21722.txt item: #7 of 15 id: 23673 author: None title: The St. Gregory Hymnal and Catholic Choir Book date: None words: 46730 flesch: 80 summary: Gloria Patri, et Filio: et Spiritui Sancto Sicut erat in principio, et nunc, et semper: et in saecula saeculorum. Gloria Patri, et Filio, et Spiritui Sancto, Gloria Patri, et Filio, et Spiritui Sancto, Sicut erat in principio et nunc, et semper, et nunc, et semper, et in saecula saeculorum. keywords: ---------no; a. m.; a. montani; aeternum; alleluia; amen; andante; angels; arr; ave; blest; blood; chanters; children; choir; chorus; christ; coeli; copyright; cum; day; dear; death; dei; deo; deus; domine; dominus; earth; ecce; ejus; eleison; ergo; est; et cum; et filio; et nunc; et semper; et spiritui; etc; father; gloria; glory; god; grace; great; hail; heart; heav'n; holy; jesus; joseph; joy; king; kyrie; laudate; libera; life; light; lord; love; m. ---------no; m. page; maria; mary; mater; melody; mercy; miserere; moderato; montani; mother; mundi; n. a.; nicola; nicola a.; nobis; non; nos; o maria; omnes; ora; page; panis; patri; praise; pro; quam; qui; r. et; regina; rev; saecula; saeculorum; saint; sancto; sanctus; saviour; sicut; sing; sit; souls; sweet; thee; thine; thou; thy; tibi; unison; veni; virgin; virgo; word cache: 23673.txt plain text: 23673.txt item: #8 of 15 id: 27848 author: Brownlie, John title: Hymns of the Greek Church Translated with Introduction and Notes date: None words: 9674 flesch: 80 summary: The people share in them by responding 'Lord have mercy' at the end of each petition, and 'Amen' at the close. {EKTENÊ} OR GREAT COLLECT {Hyper tês anôthen eirênês, kai tês sôtêrias tôn psychôn hêmôn, tou Kyriou deêthômen} I Lord, to our humble prayers attend, Let Thou Thy peace from heaven descend, IV Lord, by Thy Passion Thou Sav'st men from passions base, keywords: christ; church; day; earth; glory; god; greek; hymns; iii; life; light; lord; praise; thee; thou; thy cache: 27848.txt plain text: 27848.txt item: #9 of 15 id: 28479 author: Brownlie, John title: Hymns from the East Being Centos and Suggestions from the Office Books of the Holy Eastern Church date: None words: 10371 flesch: 86 summary: I To Thee, O Christ, our God, Great Shepherd, who didst bear The wandering sheep that strayed Back to Thy shepherd care; II Who, pitying, gav'st Thy life, That we might stray no more,-- To Thee our hearts we raise, And Thee our songs adore. I O, touch my heart, and bring to mind The sin I should deplore; And give me grace, Thou God most kind, That I may sin no more. keywords: christ; church; god; iii; life; light; lord; morn; sin; soul; thee; thou; thy cache: 28479.txt plain text: 28479.txt item: #10 of 15 id: 29480 author: None title: Hymns from the Morningland Being Translations, Centos and Suggestions from the Service Books of the Holy Eastern Church date: None words: 15561 flesch: 83 summary: For Thou hast memory of the woe That filled Thy soul at Calvary. Thy soul the wrath of sin Its tempest fury cast, keywords: christ; church; come; cross; day; death; earth; glory; god; heaven; iii; life; light; lord; love; mercy; power; sin; soul; thee; thou; thy cache: 29480.txt plain text: 29480.txt item: #11 of 15 id: 30995 author: None title: Indian Methodist Hymn-book Hymns Used on the Fraser River Indian Mission, of the Methodist Church, B. C. Conference, to Which Are Appended Hymns in Chinook, and the Lord's Prayer and Ten Commandments date: None words: 7058 flesch: 89 summary: O `kal al ta Jesus swas mellas tokla. 2 Jesus ta skwikh osthayte tsits-ay-e Whulam ta kul skwi-la-wal, Tokla towtamuk kul see-see Awkwit tokla lee-awm. T.C. ENGLISH 1 Jesus! keywords: alkomaylum; c.m.t; come; english; jesus; klosh; kwus; lay; mika; owe; skwi; skwilawal; tal; tchee; tchilth; thy; tokla cache: 30995.txt plain text: 30995.txt item: #12 of 15 id: 31157 author: Brownlie, John title: Hymns from the Greek Office Books Together with Centos and Suggestions date: None words: 7953 flesch: 84 summary: I Before Thy Cross we take our place, With all our load of guilt, And plead forgiveness of Thy grace Because Thy blood was spilt. II For Thou, to free us from our foes, Didst bear that cruel Cross, And by its agony and woes Bring gain for all our loss. INDEX OF FIRST LINES All hail, Life-bearing Cross, 29 All human things decay, 17 At early dawn with pious thought, 45 Before Thy Cross we take our place, 26 Blessed art Thou, O Christ our God, 36 Come let us sing with joyful mirth, 69 Come with the load of sorrow thou art bearing, 59 Come, mortals, come, behold! keywords: christ; come; glory; god; holy; iii; light; lord; love; son; thee; thou; thy cache: 31157.txt plain text: 31157.txt item: #13 of 15 id: 33160 author: Messenger, Ruth Ellis title: Christian Hymns of the First Three Centuries date: None words: 10159 flesch: 67 summary: [52]Translations from S. Angus, _Mystery Religions and Christianity_, 241-242. From the point of view of the evolution of Christian hymns, the hymns in the _Book of Revelation_ are perhaps the most significant in the New Testament because they exhibit varied elements, from Judaism, from Christianity and from the mingling of the two.[14] keywords: century; christian; christianity; church; cit; god; greek; holy; hymnody; hymns; influence; latin; lord; new; note; period; testament; thou; translation; worship cache: 33160.txt plain text: 33160.txt item: #14 of 15 id: 33180 author: None title: Book of Hymns for Public and Private Devotion date: None words: 76666 flesch: 93 summary: And Thou, my heavenly Friend and Guide, Hast kindly led me on; Taught me to rest my fainting head Upon Thy heart alone. No more, on earth no more, 352 None loves me, Father, with Thy love, 249 Not in the name of pride, 155 Not in this simple rite alone, 152 keywords: c. m.; christ; come; cross; day; death; earth; faith; father; fear; glory; god; hath; heart; heaven; high; holy; hope; hour; jesus; joy; l. m.; life; light; lord; love; m. anonymous; man; mercy; o god; o lord; o thou; o'er; peace; power; praise; prayer; rest; shall; sin; soul; spirit; strength; thee; thine; thou; thy; truth; way; world cache: 33180.txt plain text: 33180.txt item: #15 of 15 id: 33998 author: Ryden, Ernest Edwin title: The Story of Our Hymns date: None words: 115127 flesch: 74 summary: In the midst of her grief she sought comfort in writing hymns. Jesus hymns, 75, 106, 311. keywords: age; america; author; bishop; book; century; children; christ; christian; church; city; come; cross; day; days; dear; death; earth; england; english; faith; father; following; german; glory; god; good; grace; great; heart; heaven; high; holy; home; hymn; hymnody; jesus; jesus christ; john; joy; king; language; life; light; lord; lord god; love; lutheran; man; men; missionary; morning; movement; music; near; new; number; o jesus; o lord; old; pastor; people; place; poet; praise; prayer; rise; saviour; school; sing; singing; song; soul; spirit; stand; stanza; story; swedish; thee; thine; thou; thy; time; use; voice; way; wesley; words; work; world; worship; writer; writing; years cache: 33998.txt plain text: 33998.txt