To God Be The Glory

[Kem]

I love the old hymns, many of them committed to memory and run through my mind in the night.

1 To God be the glory, great things he has done!
So loved he the world that he gave us his Son,
who yielded his life an atonement for sin,
and opened the life-gate that all may go in.

Refrain:
Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord,
Let the earth hear his voice!
Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord!
Let the people rejoice!
O come to the Father through Jesus the Son
and give him the glory, great things he has done!

2 Great things he has taught us, great things he has done,
and great our rejoicing through Jesus the Son,
but purer and higher and greater will be
our joy and our wonder, when Jesus we see. [Refrain]
~Fanny Crosby 1875

 

[Batman]

I remember playing that on my trumpet with my brother and a few other kids at church and probably other churches way back in 1975 to 80.

 

[Spartan Sprinter]

I love the old hymns, many of them committed to memory and run through my mind in the night.

1 To God be the glory, great things he has done!
So loved he the world that he gave us his Son,
who yielded his life an atonement for sin,
and opened the life-gate that all may go in.

Refrain:
Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord,
Let the earth hear his voice!
Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord!
Let the people rejoice!
O come to the Father through Jesus the Son
and give him the glory, great things he has done!

2 Great things he has taught us, great things he has done,
and great our rejoicing through Jesus the Son,
but purer and higher and greater will be
our joy and our wonder, when Jesus we see. [Refrain]
~Fanny Crosby 1875

A BIG AMEN !!

 

[mattfivefour]

Those old hymns had a depth of theology and reverence and understanding that so many songs today lack. Don't get me wrong: I like some of the modern songs. But please don't take away the old hymns; so many of them are richer than almost anything we have today.

 

[Batman]

I agree. That's why I refuse to join a church that sings modern/contemporary Christian music. That perspective is not for everyone but it is for me.

 

[Ghoti Ichthus]

Those old hymns had a depth of theology and reverence and understanding that so many songs today lack. Don't get me wrong: I like some of the modern songs. But please don't take away the old hymns; so many of them are richer than almost anything we have today.

I still like the older hymns with the Thees and Thous, and the Amen at the end of each hymn, and all the parts (SATB, plus 2-8 staff organ accompaniment (need a really good organist for the 4-8 staff accompaniments plus vocal parts
Nothing better than a pipe organ with all the stops wide open and a good organist.
And the congregation and choir raising the roof in 4 parts on the good old hymns that everyone knows and loves

Jesus Loves Me with all the stops wide open




FWIW, the old hymns played on a pipe organ properly, with PA, etc., or on real bells from a bell tower or carillion, drown out the calls to blasphemy from any minarets in the area, and even the apps on peoples' phones . . . as the hymn, Crown Him with Many Crowns, reminds us, "Hark how the Heavenly anthem drowns all music but its own"

 

[Ghoti Ichthus]

Those old hymns had a depth of theology and reverence and understanding that so many songs today lack. Don't get me wrong: I like some of the modern songs. But please don't take away the old hymns; so many of them are richer than almost anything we have today.

Even the Battle Hymn of the Republic gives glory to God, and does so repeatedly

1 Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord;
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword:
His truth is marching on.

Refrain:
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
His truth is marching on.

2 I have seen him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps;
They have builded him an altar in the evening dews and damps;
I can read the righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps;
His day is marching on. [Refrain]

3 He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat;
He is sifting out the hearts of all before his judgment seat;
O be swift, my soul, to answer him; be jubilant, my feet!
Our God is marching on. [Refrain]

4 In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,
With a glory in his bosom that transfigures you and me;
As he died to make us holy, let us die that all be free!
While God is marching on. [Refrain]


The old hymns are all about God and what He has done
The new songs (can't call them hymns in good conscience) are all about me
And if it's a modern version of an old hymn, the music and/or changed lyrics are disrespectful, watered down, and/or about me instead of God