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Vintage Hymns: All People That On Earth Do Dwell

All People That On Earth Do Dwell William Kethe Geneva Psalter, 1561 Did you notice the date on this hymn? 1561 definitely makes it an old hymn. This is the time of the Reformation. Some protestant leaders, like John Calvin, believed in simple worship services consisting of prayer, preaching and singing of the Psalms. Music [...]

Then Sings My Soul

Then Sings My Soul, Book 2 Robert J. Morgan Published by Thomas Nelson, Inc., 2004 ISBN:0-7852-5168-5 This is a SONG BOOK! But, it’s more than just songs. It contains “150 of the World’s Greatest Hymn Stories”. I like the way the book is organized. On one side of the page is the hymn [...]

Vintage Hymns: Go Tell It On The Mountain

This is truly an all American Christmas Carol. It comes from the black slaves who worked on plantations. No one knows who wrote the original words or the music. In the later part of the nineteenth century, a group at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee worked to save the old spirituals. A man at Fisk, [...]

Old Fashioned Hymn Lyrics: Wondrous Love

Here’s a song that goes through my head at some point almost every day. It’s an old song recently made popular by one of my favorite Bluegrass groups, Blue Highway. In 2003 they came out with this great all-gospel album, Wondrous Love. The album begins with the title song and ends with “The Old Rugged [...]