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A Year of Hymn Stories: A Primer of Hymnology

Carl F. Price (1881 - 1948)

Carl F. Price, a pioneering hymnologist, historian, and author, presents 52 stories of hymns from the Methodist Sunday School Hymnal to introduce students to the great music of the church, The hymns range from those by familiar hymnologists such as Charles Wesley and Isaac Watts to lesser known writers such as Martin Rinkart, and Henry Kirke White.. These hymns roughly fallow the Methodist church year including Sundays for "Missionary," "Temperance," "Children's Day," etc, and the major holidays of the year. Summary by Larry Wilson

Genre(s): Christianity - Other

Language: English

Keyword(s): essays (191), music (130), church (47), devotional (25), hymns (23), Methodism (16), worship (11), sunday school (11), praise (10), wesley (4) ... [Show full list]

Section	Chapter	Reader	Time
Play 00	Preface and Introduction	Larry Wilson	00:06:54
Play 01	First Sunday: New Year's “Another year is dawning!” Frances Ridley Havergal, 1836-1879	proboomer	00:02:19
Play 02	Second Sunday: Evangelistic “Just as I am, without one plea” Charlotte Elliott, 1789-1871	proboomer	00:02:42
Play 03	Third Sunday: Evangelistic ““Almost persuaded,’ now to believe’ Philip Bliss, 1838-1876	proboomer	00:02:27
Play 04	Fourth Sunday: Missionary “The whole world was lost in the darkness of sin” Philip Bliss, 1838-1876	proboomer	00:02:35
Play 05	Fifth Sunday: “Blest be the tie that binds” John Fawcett, 1739-1817	proboomer	00:02:35
Play 06	Sixth Sunday: “Be not dismayed whate’er betide, God will take care of you" C. D. Martin	proboomer	00:02:18
Play 07	Seventh Sunday: Washington's Birthday “O beautiful for spacious skies” Katharine Lee Bates, 1859-	proboomer	00:02:22
Play 08	Eighth Sunday: Missionay “Fling out the banner! let it float” George Washington Doane, 1799-1859	proboomer	00:02:33
Play 09	Ninth Sunday: “Glory be to the Father”	proboomer	00:02:34
Play 10	Tenth Sunday: “I was a wandering sheep” Horatius Bonar, 1808-1889	proboomer	00:02:22
Play 11	Eleventh Sunday: “Jesus, Lover of my soul” Charles Wesley, 1707-1788	sforeman	00:02:13
Play 12	Twelth Sunday: “When I survey the wondrous cross” Isaac Watts, 1674-1748	Larry Wilson	00:02:20
Play 13	Thirteenth Sunday: Palm Sunday “All glory, laud, and honor" Saint Theodulph, ? —821	Larry Wilson	00:02:14
Play 14	Fourteenth Sunday: Easter Day “The day of resurrection” John of Damascus, ? -780	proboomer	00:02:35
Play 15	Fifteenth Sunday: “All hail the power of Jesus’ name!’ Edward Perronet, 1726-1792	proboomer	00:02:26
Play 16	Sixteenth Sunday: “Stand up, stand up for Jesus!” George Duffield, Jr., 1818-1888	proboomer	00:02:31
Play 17	Seventeenth Sunday: From Greenland’s icy mountains” Reginald Heber, 1783-1826	proboomer	00:02:46
Play 18	Eighteenth Sunday: “O Love that wilt not let me go” George Matheson, 1842-1906	proboomer	00:02:43
Play 19	Nineteenth Sunday: Mothers' Day “Now thank we all our God” Martin Rinkart, 1586-1649	proboomer	00:02:29
Play 20	Twentieth Sunday: Ascension “Golden harps are sounding” Frances Ridley Havergal, 1836-1879	proboomer	00:02:40
Play 21	Twenty-first Sunday: Twenty-First Sunday: Missionary “Jesus shall reign where’er the sun” Isaac Watts, 1674-1748	proboomer	00:02:37
Play 22	Twenty-second Sunday: Decoration Day “Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord” Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910	proboomer	00:04:31
Play 23	Twenty-third Sunday: Lead, kindly Light, amid th’ encircling gloom” John Henry Newman, 1801-1890	proboomer	00:02:33
Play 24	Twenty-fourth Sunday: Children's Day “Gentle Jesus, meek and mild” Charles Wesley, 1707-1788	Larry Wilson	00:02:32
Play 25	Twenty-fifth Sunday: “In the cross of Christ I glory” John Bowring, 1792-1872	Larry Wilson	00:02:20
Play 26	Twenty-sixth Sunday: Temperance “Oft in danger, oft in woe” Henry Kirke White, 1785-1806	Brother Michael	00:02:35
Play 27	Twenty-seventh Sunday: Independence Day “My country, ’tis of thee” Samuel Francis Smith, 1808-1895	Brother Michael	00:02:28
Play 28	Twenty-eighth Sunday: “O say, can you see by the dawn’s early light” Francis Scott Key, 1779-1843	Brother Michael	00:02:20
Play 29	Twenty-ninth Sunday: “Jerusalem the golden” Bernard of Cluny, —12th Century	Belinda Mc	00:02:18
Play 30	Thirtieth Sunday: Missionary “O for a thousand tongues to sing” Charles Wesley, 1707-1788	Larry Wilson	00:02:32
Play 31	Thirty-first Sunday: “Glorious things of thee are spoken” John Newton, 1725-1807	Belinda Mc	00:02:26
Play 32	Thirty-second Sunday: “Hark, my soul! it is the Lord” William Cowper, 1731-1800	Belinda Mc	00:02:16
Play 33	Thirty-third Sunday: “Sun of my soul, Thou Saviour dear” John Keble, 1792-1866	Belinda Mc	00:02:25
Play 34	Thirty-fourthSunday: Missionary “The morning light is breaking” Samuel Francis Smith, 1808-1895	proboomer	00:02:35
Play 35	Thirty-fifth Sunday: Labor Sunday “Take my life, and let it be" Frances Ridley Havergal, 1836-1879	proboomer	00:02:40
Play 36	Thirty-sixth Sunday: “I Think, -- when I read that sweet story of old” Jemima Luke, 1813-1906	proboomer	00:02:36
Play 37	Thirty-sevetnth Sunday: “A mighty fortress is our God” Martin Luther, 1483-1546	proboomer	00:02:40
Play 38	Thirty-eighth Sunday: Harvest Praise God, from whom all blessings flow” Thomas Ken, 1637-1710	proboomer	00:02:39
Play 39	Thirty-ninth Sunday: Temperance “What a Friend we have in Jesus” Joseph Scriven, 1820-1886	Larry Wilson	00:02:16
Play 40	Fortieth Sunday: Rally Day “O God, my powers are Thine” Frederick Watson Hannan, 1865-	grassykeen	00:01:48
Play 41	Forty-first Sunday: “Rock of Ages, cleft for me” Augustus Montague Toplady, 1740-1778	Larry Wilson	00:02:23
Play 42	Forty-second Sunday: “Abide with me! Fast falls the eventide” Henry Francis Lyte, 1793-1847	proboomer	00:02:45
Play 43	Forty-third Sunday: Missionary “Christ for the world we sing” Samuel Wolcott, 1813-1886	Robert Gordon	00:02:38
Play 44	Forty-fourth Sunday: “Forward! be our watchword” Henry Alford, 1810-1871	Robert Gordon	00:02:35
Play 45	Forty-fifth Sunday: “Come, Thou Almighty King” Author unknown	Robert Gordon	00:02:17
Play 46	Forty-sixth Sunday: "He leadeth me! O blessed thought!” Joseph Henry Gilmore, 1834-	Robert Gordon	00:02:38
Play 47	Forty-seventh Sunday: Missionary “Hail to the Lord’s Anointed” James Montgomery, 1771-1854	Robert Gordon	00:02:31
Play 48	Forty-eighth Sunday: Thanksgiving “We plow the fields, and scatter’ Matthias Claudius, 1740-1815	Robert Gordon	00:02:36
Play 49	Forty-ninthSunday: “The God of Abraham praise” Thomas Olivers, 1725-1799	Robert Gordon	00:02:30
Play 50	Fiftieth Sunday: Nearer, my God, to Thee” Sarah Flower Adams, 1805-1848	Robert Gordon	00:02:34
Play 51	Fifty-first Sunday: Christmas “Hark! the herald angels sing” Charles Wesley, 1707-1788	Robert Gordon	00:02:33
Play 52	Fifty-second Sunday: Last Sabbath of the Old Year “God be with you till we meet again” Jeremiah Eames Rankin, 1828-1904	Robert Gordon	00:02:45

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