Name that hymn

[MotherBluestocking]

A man that looks on glass
On it may stay his eye

Can't believe hobgoblins and foul fiends have been written out. How stupid. I would sing the original!

Tell me about it!! Trouble is, with these word-changes I often do find myself singing the original, then wondering why my (awful) singing fails to match everyone else

Has anyone mentioned Praise my soul the king of heaven? Yet another great belter ...

Are you weak and heavy laden?
Take it to the Lord in prayer...

My dear old Dad used to sing that in his green house at the bottom of the garden . (Methodist upbringing here too.)

And another vote for Love Unknown. Fabulous.

And

I nothing lack if I am his
And he is mine for e-e-e ver

Can anyone forget the utter joy of "Lord, dismiss us with thy blessing" at the end of term and the dirge of "Lord behold us...." at the beginning?

Good grief alice snap !!!!

The King of Love my Shepherd is. (When I was at school in the 1960s we all fancied a boy called John Shepherd and used to sing "the king of love John Shepherd is...").

Why write out hobgoblins and foul fiends anyway? In case of accidentally offended hobgoblins?

Emily I shall start to think we went to the same cathedral school- was just finding I had 'O Jesus I have promised/ To serve thee to the end' running through my head. Did you sing it to a syncopated tune which was probably daringly avant garde in 1983?

God is my great desire'
His face I seek the first
To him my soul aspires
For him I thirst
As one in desert lands
Who's very flesh is flame

One of Timothy dusky smith's less well known hymns. Can't find a recording of it but love the tune Leoni

While we are on the Bunyan hymn I do remember also in 1983 the boy who had a Trip to the Headmaster for singing 'There's no discouragement/ Shall make him once relent/His first avowed intent/To be a pilchard'.

Which of course at age 8 was both a shocking offence and the funniest thing EVER.

No C of E very refaiined gels school circa 1962... No syncopation...

another great hymn, spoilt by modern re-writing, is Hills of the North Rejoice. I used to love singing it at school assemblies.
My absolute favourite is Let all Mortal Flesh keep Silence.
I'm lucky enough to worship at Bristol Cathedral, with a combination of beautiful music, top class sermons, and wonderful surroundings. When I was younger I disliked ritual, but I now find all of it a great aid to worship.

Good grief Lumpy you really do learn something every day on MN; I had no idea of the story behind Amazing Grace

It all makes so much more sense now - "I once was lost but now am found, was blind but now I see"

Perverse and foolish oft I strayed
And yet in love, he sought me...

Oh to be a pilchard. One from my teaching days. We used to sway together on the platform on the last day of term as it was the Head's favourite.
I also taught oop North and the children used to sing, "will yer anchor 'old in the storms of life", which I have never heard before or since.

'Tis only the splendour of light hideth thee

Oh I miss believing in God. I love hymns.

Oh Jesus I have promised - NOT the syncopated version.

Good shepherd may I sing thy praise
Within thy house for e-e-ver.

Immortal, invisible, God Only Wise.
I miss it too. And I live in France where the hymns are really terrible.

O worship the lord in the beauty of holiness.

That's to larry the cucumber by the way.
Amazing that there are so many hymn buffs here!

Hill and vale and tree and flower, sun and moon and stars of light.

All laud we would render
Oh help us to see
Tis only the splendour
Of light hideth thee.

Oo they don't write lyrics like that anymore.

Oh yes!!! Hills of the North.
How on earth has that been re written?
Moderate inclines of non descript nowhere ?

What have they done to Hills of the North?

This one needs an ace pianist / organist...
None can see God above;
We can share life and love;
Thus may we Godward move,
Seek him in creation,
Holding every nation.