Old hymns that you still love

me too, favourites are..
I am only an occasional church goer these days though.

How Great Thou Art

Make Me A Channel Of Your Peace

Amazing Grace and How Great Thou Art.

I am not religious but Ive always enjoyed a good sing song and had a very good voice when I was younger.

Jerusalem
Fight the good fight
Onward Christian soldiers

Oh - haven’t heard Onward Christian Soldiers in a while. Good stirring hymn!

My favourite has always been. ‘ Immortal Invisible.’

the english hymnal and its use during assembly was key to my learning to read at first year of junior school, age 7.
my fondness and warm gratitude remains.
as well as enduring familiarity with the hymns.
the swell of sound behind me, and gazing intently at the headmaster before me, the words almost sang themselves out of the book.

So many but these come immediately to mind:

Be Thou My Vision,
How Great Thou Art,
And Can It Be,
Guide Me Oh Thou Great Redeemer,
Here I Am Lord (I The Lord Of Sea And Sky).

The last is not really old (late 20th century) but a wonderful hymn.

I love the hymns I sang at school.

Lord Behold Us With Thy Blessing was always sung on the first day of term and Lord Dismiss Us on the last.

Oh Jesus I Have Promised, Dear Lord and Father of Mankind and Hills of the North Rejoice also bring back memories.

The Old Rugged Cross and When A Knight Won His Spurs

The king of love my shepherd is
I heard the voice of Jesus say
Be thou my vision

There is a Green Hill Far Away. It makes me cry!

I spent a lot of my childhood wondering why the green hill didn’t have a city wall!

For All The Saints
Jerusalem
The Lord's My Sheperd

Thine be the Glory

Make me channel of your peace

How great thou art....My favourites

MrsKen33

As a lapsed Methodist I love all the old hymns, such a shame not to hear them so much now

and at xmas, we three kings of oreey and tar.
which i presumed were some far off places beyond persia.
as a child my dear late partner used to sing,
do y'know silvia blackshirt...
well he didn't, whoever she was, and thought no more about it until years later on taking up church, discovered a hymn to the same tune which began,
do no sinful action...

Lord for tomorrow, Just for today, wonderful hymn.

A friend’s husband wanted to have Onward Christian Soldiers at his wedding because it reminded him of his days at boarding school. The vicar persuaded him against it as not being particularly appropriate for a marriage! I like:
Make me a channel of thy peace.
Majesty.
I don’t think these are particularly old .
I like Jerusalem as well .

Guide me oh thou great Jehovah;
He who would valiant be;
Eternal Father strong to save;
Guide me oh thou great redeemer;
For all the Saints who from their labours rest;
Jerusalem;
I heard the voice of Jesus say (to the tune of Vaughan Williams Variations on Dives and Lazarus (though I don’t know which came first!)).

Sorry bit of a repetition there - can’t tell my redeemers from my Jehovah’s??

? don’t know where he came from !!!

I often find I’m humming a hymn when I walk my dog, I haven’t been to church for many years but still enjoy so many hymns.

I worked in a small care home. After a resident died we all sang ‘All things Bright and Beautiful’. The years rolled back and many, staff as well as residents, were smiling through tears.

At at 11 in secondary school we each given a little hardback ‘Songs of Praise’. I still have mine 70 years later. So many memories. I especially liked ‘Lord of all Hopefulness’, ‘I Bind Unto Myself Today’ and many Christmas carols.
When I began teaching in 1960 the children enjoyed ‘When a Knight Won his Spurs in the stories of old’ and ‘When lamps are lighted in the town, The boats sail out to sea’.