# What is your favorite Hymn? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 21, 2016, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-hymn/743772 "2016-01-21T13:14:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2016, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-hymn/743772/101 "2016-01-26T04:23:00Z")
A mime is a terrible thing to waste! :mad: :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![funky\_little\_lee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e95f7d/32.png) [@funky\_little\_lee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/funky_little_lee)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2016, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-hymn/743772/102 "2016-01-26T04:58:03Z")
[Drop, Drop Slow Tears](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DEHBfv5N8Mhttp://) [O Gladsome Light](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5LiKWtwA28) There are many others I like, but these two I could listen to nonstop and never cease to be moved by. ---
**Author:** ![Civil\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d78d45/32.png) [@Civil\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Civil_Guy)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2016, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-hymn/743772/103 "2016-01-26T05:19:25Z")
I’ll throw in a vote for [Beneath The Cross of Jesus](http://www.hymnary.org/text/beneath_the_cross_of_jesus_i_fain_would). ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2016, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-hymn/743772/104 "2016-01-26T19:01:32Z")
I never tire of [Let the Lower Lights Be Burning](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KchNq0M9N1k) (also known as “Brightly Burns Our Father’s Mercy”). ---
**Author:** ![KAndre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@KAndre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KAndre)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-hymn/743772/105 "2016-01-27T17:03:14Z")
> [@HMS\_Irruncible](#): > > “There is a fountain filled with blood.” I have no idea what the lyrics are, but it’s the only song my dad could play on piano, and he enjoyed playing it. There is a fountain filled with blood drawn from Emmanuel’s veins; And sinners plunged beneath that flood lose all their guilty stains. Lose all their guilty stains, lose all their guilty stains; And sinners plunged beneath that flood lose all their guilty stains. Now that takes me back to my grandfather’s church, and the old AME hymnal. Oddly I really like all the ones that prominently features blood; _Nothing But The Blood_, _Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing_…but these speak to me as well. _Rock of Ages The Old Rugged Cross How Firm a Foundation_ I never was particularly religious - but something about those just speak to me… ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-hymn/743772/106 "2016-01-27T18:00:36Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Hymns are a special category within Gospel music. Hymns are much, much older than Gospel music. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-hymn/743772/107 "2016-01-27T18:02:04Z")
My fave is “How Can I Keep from Singing.” ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-hymn/743772/108 "2016-01-27T20:36:13Z")
[quote=“Spoons, post:89, topic:743772”] My favourite hymns: “The Navy Hymn.” Many of the congregants at this church were WWII veterans, and we would adjust the lyrics for the branch of service at funerals: “Oh hear us as we raise our prayer/For those in peril in the air,” for example. [/QUOT Robert Heinlein, in one of his short stories, mentioned that hymn, which interestingly enough was not written for the Navy. Heinlein’s story had a verse for spacers: Eternal Father of the all Whose power extends to great and small Who guides the stars with steadfast law Whose least creation fills with awe. Oh grant Thy mercy and Thy grace To those who venture into space. ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Wayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@Charlie\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Wayne)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-hymn/743772/109 "2016-01-27T20:42:59Z")
What is my favorite Hymn? Well actually, it’s a Hyrr. Does that make me somewhat misoginysticable? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-hymn/743772/110 "2016-01-27T21:19:19Z")
Handel’s coronation anthem “Zadok the Priest” is magnificent. It just builds and builds and builds…: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1W1XJ96y9k](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1W1XJ96y9k) “Softly and Tenderly” by Will Thompson (a distant cousin of mine) was a big part of the movie _The Trip to Bountiful_: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EgJxPbS9ds](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EgJxPbS9ds). Lots of singers have covered it over the years, including Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash. I’ve always found “The Church’s One Foundation” quite moving: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=\_UaYAVm2R28](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UaYAVm2R28) > [@Daddypants](#): > > Battle Hymn of the Republic Winston Churchill, whose mother was American, liked it so much he asked that it be played at his funeral. At 2:23 here: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y6t-VTW4Uc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y6t-VTW4Uc) > [@missred](#): > > …Jesus Christ is Risen Today (for Easter)… A great Easter hymn. I’ve been known to get a little teary singing it: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0RhLJYKi-4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0RhLJYKi-4) > [@Oakminster](#): > > _Amazing Grace_ on bagpipes. Sorry to say, it’s become so popular it seems a bit clichéd to me now. To each their own. > [@Maserschmidt](#): > > I’m counting _Jerusalem_ as a hymn, even though the CoE says it isn’t. Written based on a William Blake poem, catchy tune and anthemic music, mocked by Monty Python…pretty much perfect. It was in the 1928 Episcopal hymnal IIRC, and also featured in _Chariots of Fire_: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5O\_SvlHKcA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5O_SvlHKcA) > [@KAndre](#): > > …The Old Rugged Cross… Brad Paisley sings it well, I think: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NwNL7CCaZQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NwNL7CCaZQ) > [@Spoons](#): > > …“The Navy Hymn.” …Robert Heinlein, in one of his short stories, mentioned that hymn, which interestingly enough was not written for the Navy. > > Heinlein’s story had a verse for spacers… Yes, that was in “Ordeal in Space.” Very clever of him, I always thought: [The Wondering Minstrels: Almighty Ruler of the All -- Robert A Heinlein](http://wonderingminstrels.blogspot.com/2003/02/almighty-ruler-of-all-robert-heinlein.html) As it happens, there have been number of different verses over the years: [Eternal Father, Strong to Save - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_Father,_Strong_to_Save) And here’s a particularly good place to sing it: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQOzUqdOVDU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQOzUqdOVDU) ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-hymn/743772/111 "2016-01-27T22:03:40Z")
“In The Garden” is used for amazing effect at the end of \*\*Places In The Heart \*\*-- best. ending. ever. ---
**Author:** ![lisiate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f05b48/32.png) [@lisiate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisiate)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-hymn/743772/112 "2016-01-27T22:56:11Z")
Amazing Grace is my favourite to sing. [Fa’afetai i le atua](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj9AsZtchGc) (Thank you, God, our Creator) moves me a lot more though. The first time I heard it was when some of my cousins sang it as we buried our grandfather. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-hymn/743772.md?page=5)