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HYMNS In Human Experience THE GOOD OLD HYMNS CONTENTS PREFACE CHAPTER I A Singing Faith

The Supreme Hymn When Two Hymn-Writers Met John Wesley’s Last Hymn Singing Their Farewell In the Hospital “Sun of My Soul” Their Last Sing-Song Other Refuge Have I None An Unforgotten Song Sounding the Silver Trumpet Grandchildren of Cannibals Praised God A Song Which Belted the Globe The Wondrous Story Sang Amid the Darkness “God Will Take Care of You” A Sexton’s Tribute to a Singer The Author of “Beulah Land” A Hymn of Consecration Kindling the Torches at the Bonfire “Onward, Christian Soldiers” A Shrine Created by a Song

CHAPTER II Songs in the Night

Played a Hymn on the Deck of a Sinking Boat Rescuers Steered in the Direction Of the Singer “Adrift on an Ice-Pan” Dedicating a Lifeboat What Led to “He Leadeth Me” A German Girl Led in Singing “A Mighty Fortress” What a Blind Soldier Wanted to Hear Blind and Lonely, But Still Singing Transfigured by Matheson’s Hymn “Through Cheerful Years My Guide” “Through Every Day” for A Thousand Days “Sank in Blissful Dreams Away” Hymns in Hospital Patients Listened to “Precious Name” Church Bells Reminded Her Of an Old Hymn

CHAPTER III Hymns Mothers Loved

The Old Brown Book “My Mother’s Song” The Note of Assurance in the Old Hymns Canadian Railroad Men Sang In Memory of Mother Heard Mother’s Hymn in a Mission Voices Husky With Emotion Wanted to Hear the Hymns That Mother Loved Best Saluted Her Favorite Hymn Sang the Nicene Creed Singing While Sleeping “Peace, Perfect Peace” A Mother Answered with a Hymn Mother Held Her Place in Their Hearts

CHAPTER IV When Preachers Sing

A Minister Requested His Favorite Hymn Marching Song of Veteran Ministers Ready for Another Day’s Work When a Bishop Sang at the Ordination Service “Thou My Daily Task Shall Give” “All My Help From Thee I Bring” Bishops Sang Their Special Hymn “Land Me Safe on Canaan’s Side” Ministers Sang Their Hope

CHAPTER V Songs of Soldiers

A Memory of Pickett’s Brigade The Song of the Defeated A Chorus of Ten Thousand Marching to Music A Soldier Saved by Song Sunshine Came Into a Soldier’s Heart American Soldiers Greeted Christmas Soldiers and Sankey’s Hymns Marching Men “Six Further On” “Sing It Again, Laddie” A Violinist in the Trenches

CHAPTER VI Heard Within Prison Walls

Prisoners Sang “The Glory Song” The Hymn of the Prisoner A Condemned Man Wanted “Face to Face” Sung Hymns Selected by Prisoners Judge and Criminals Listened To “The Holy City”

CHAPTER VII The Music of Submerged Lives

A Cripple Stood on Crutches Song of the Man with the Wooden Leg Sung for the Scrub Woman What the Washerwoman Sang Before Worship When Lumberjacks Sang “Jesus, Lover of My Soul” “Pass It On”

CHAPTER VIII Songs of Salvation

Saved by Sankey’s Singing Hymns from the Bowery Mission Singing of Christ, She Accepted Him God Was the Seeker A Song at Midnight Handed a Copy of Her Own Hymn “Throw Out the Lifeline” In a Newspaper “Jesus of Nazareth” Made an Extraordinary Impression “One Sweetly Solemn Thought”

CHAPTER IX “The Old Rugged Cross”

All Wanted the Same Song Gospel Music in the Lumber Camps The Cross Remains “Rock of Ages” Henry Drummond’s Hymn on His Last Sunday The Only Word for Discord and Distress What Frances Wanted Sung

CHAPTER X Hymns of Youth

The Influence of the Sunday School Glad He Learned the Hymn in Sunday School “Sing, Muzzer, Sing” Children Sang of the Love of Jesus A Youthful Daniel Jazz and Sacred Music Spiritual Experience in Song Evening Prayer of Young Campers Acknowledging God’s Claims “Can the Lord Depend on You?” Young America Made Music Hymns Used at the Dedication of a College Chapel

CHAPTER XI Hymns as Prayers

Hymns Are Prayers The Constant Companion of the Pilgrim Journey “Lead, Kindly Light” An Eventide Prayer “Through the Long Night Watches” “Why, That’s For Me” The Satisfying Consciousness of God’s Presence Not Alone

CHAPTER XII Songs of the Negroes

The Value of Negro Spirituals Finding the Soul of the Song How the Negroes Sing Black Uncle’s Song Made a Minister A Negro Family Sang at John Brown’s Funeral

CHAPTER XIII Christmas and Easter Melodies

An Incarnation Hymn that Fires the Imagination The Joy of Christmas Nurses Sang Carols “Silent Night” “O Little Town of Bethlehem” Carols Sung by Children Easter Morning in America’s Bethlehem Hymn Writers Tell of Heaven Salvation Army Music on Easter Morning Sung by and for Sankey

CHAPTER XIV Funeral Music

Hymn of Martyred President Sung by the Nation President Wilson’s Favorite Hymn Bells Played Hymns When Taft Was Buried Comforted by His Own Hymn Tennyson’s Hymn at His Funeral Text Selected by Miss Havergal for Her Tombstone When Parepa Sang at Annie’s Funeral Each Member of the Family Sang a Verse Played Her Father’s Favorite Hymn at a Memorial Service Songs at a Missionary’s Grave Hallelujah Chorus and Doxology at the Funeral Service

CHAPTER XV Hymns on Patriotic Occasions

America, the Beautiful A Praise Service Sung on Memorial Day in France “America” After the Battle “Salute America!” “Now Thank We All Our God” A Singing Legislature The Doxology on Armistice Day

FOOTNOTES INDEX OF HYMNS Transcriber’s Notes