It is sad that many of the great hymns of the Christian faith are no longer sung. Between 1965 and 1917, hundreds, if not thousands of great hymns were published, but for some reason the art of hymn-writing became lost in the years preceding World War II. With some notable exceptions such as
Mansions of the Lord (2002), most "modern" hymns are rather insipid musically.
Were I put in charge of revising the Methodist hymnal, I would throw out everything written after 1939 and replace them with hymns by great postbellum Methodist hymn writers such as Lelia Morris, William Kirkpatrick, Charles Gabriel, George McGranahan and Daniel W. Whittle, which have been largely forgotten.
Were I put in charge of revising the Methodist hymnal, I would throw out
Didn’t they throw out Onward Christian Soldiers?