A mime is a terrible thing to waste! :mad: :rolleyes:
There are many others I like, but these two I could listen to nonstop and never cease to be moved by.
I’ll throw in a vote for Beneath The Cross of Jesus.
I never tire of Let the Lower Lights Be Burning (also known as “Brightly Burns Our Father’s Mercy”).
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…
Hymns are much, much older than Gospel music.
My fave is “How Can I Keep from Singing.”
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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.
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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.
What is my favorite Hymn?
Well actually, it’s a Hyrr. Does that make me somewhat misoginysticable?
Handel’s coronation anthem “Zadok the Priest” is magnificent. It just builds and builds and builds…: 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. 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
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
A great Easter hymn. I’ve been known to get a little teary singing it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0RhLJYKi-4
Sorry to say, it’s become so popular it seems a bit clichéd to me now. To each their own.
It was in the 1928 Episcopal hymnal IIRC, and also featured in Chariots of Fire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5O_SvlHKcA
Brad Paisley sings it well, I think: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NwNL7CCaZQ
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
As it happens, there have been number of different verses over the years: Eternal Father, Strong to Save - Wikipedia
And here’s a particularly good place to sing it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQOzUqdOVDU
“In The Garden” is used for amazing effect at the end of **Places In The Heart **-- best. ending. ever.
Amazing Grace is my favourite to sing.
Fa’afetai i le atua (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.