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... hymn is no more crooked and unseemly and terrible and overpowering than that . The truth is that we shall soon be without the hymnody of super- rational rapture if little by little we leave off singing the hymns in which the excess of ...
... hymn is no more crooked and unseemly and terrible and overpowering than that . The truth is that we shall soon be without the hymnody of super- rational rapture if little by little we leave off singing the hymns in which the excess of ...
Page 105
... hymn of trust and warning and defiance , " My soul , be on thy guard . " Others cast out apparently without regret and cer- tainly without apology are " Hark ! the sound of holy voices " ; " Come ... hymn . 105 IMPROVING THE HYMNS PAGE.
... hymn of trust and warning and defiance , " My soul , be on thy guard . " Others cast out apparently without regret and cer- tainly without apology are " Hark ! the sound of holy voices " ; " Come ... hymn . 105 IMPROVING THE HYMNS PAGE.
Page 107
... hymn- book . Why eviscerate " I love to tell the story , " leaving only the first and the last stanzas ? What is the point in deciding that " Faith of our fathers " serves just as well with three stanzas as with four ? What had the ...
... hymn- book . Why eviscerate " I love to tell the story , " leaving only the first and the last stanzas ? What is the point in deciding that " Faith of our fathers " serves just as well with three stanzas as with four ? What had the ...
Contents
POETRY AND LIFE | 7 |
SHAKESPEARES CREED | 26 |
THE LINCOLN OF THE SECOND INAUGURAL | 43 |
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