Handbook to the Mennonite Hymnary

THE CHURCH YEAR IN CHORALES Call to Worship 505-508 Praise 509-520 Advent 522-524 Christmastide 525-527 (New Year) 528 Epiphany 529-530 Lent 531-540 Eastertide 541-545 Whitsunti...

INDEXES (1) Index of Scripture Texts 400 (2) Topical Index of the Metrical Psalms 402 (3) Composers and Sources of Tunes 402 (4) Authors, Translators and Sources 407 (5) Alphabe...

_New Version_, 1696, Tate and Brady. “Through all the changing scenes of life” (583) “As pants the hart for cooling streams” (586) “O come, loud anthems let us sing” (18) “While...

A metrical paraphrase of Revelation 4:8-11. The hymn was written for use on Trinity Sunday of the Church Year but has found a wide general use as a morning hymn. It ranks high i...

Written by the pastor of the Lewin’s Mead Unitarian Church, Bristol, England, for use in a Sunday school anniversary, 1876, in his church. The hymn is suitable for adults as wel...

A popular song in the Moody and Sankey revivals. It has few equals as a “rouser” in a revival or prayer meeting. To create interest and add variety in a special song service, Ro...

1. Tut mir auf die schöne Pforte, Führt in Gottes Haus mich ein! Ach, wie wird an diesem Orte Meine Seele fröhlich sein! Hier ist Gottes Angesicht, Hier ist lauter Trost und Licht.

_MUSIC._ DUNFERMLINE is a Scottish tune of unknown origin. The name is that of a town in Scotland. It appeared as one of the twelve “Common Tunes” (tunes not attached to any par...

_MUSIC._ SANCTUS. The composer of the tune, Alexander Samuel Cooper, was born in London in 1835. The date of his death is not known. He was an organist and composer of anthems,...