My missionary cousin refers to much of today’s Christian music as “7-11 Music” ... 7 words repeated 11 times. I hate to say it, but sometime I feel like I’ve wandered into a rock concert instead of a worship service. Today’s music sure doesn’t hold a candle to the great old hymns of the faith.
This missionary has to remember what your colleague says. 7-11, how true! I find most songs today have shallow theology.
This hymns is rock solid.
BUMP
Amen! Preach on!
I wish the Methodist Church would put me in charge of editing our new hymnal. I would throw out everything written after Gerald Kennedy's "God of Love and God of Power" (1939) and replace that stuff with great yet forgotten tunes of the faith by writers and composers such as Charles Gabriel, Lelia Morris, Ira Sankey, James McGranahan and Daniel Webster Whittle.
In South Africa, this hymn, sung to the tune Nettleton, is a great favourite with the youth. I don’t think most of them even realise that they’re singing an old hymn.