Shall we gather at the river and other beautiful hymns

Swing Low Sweet Chariot is one of my favourites .

“Guide me Oh Thou Great Redeemer,
Pilgrim through this barren land”.

My favourite hymn is The Servant King.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSeW6CSlUEE

Allira

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My singing group is doing a beautiful song that I hadn’t heard before: Do You Hear What I Hear? (although not that old).

It's lovely.

A Christmas song

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhTnDaEmA5k

Bing Crosby singing this.

I have had an ear worm all day of Stand up, Stand up for Jesus.
I first sang it at Sunday School 80 years ago.
I went to the Bethesda Methodist chapel.
We had three in our small village, Bethesda, Primative and Wesleyan.
My Father’s family were Wesleyan but my mother was CofE and for some reason decided that Bethesda was closest in beliefs.
Totally irrational but it was her belief.

Oh these are all so lovely, thanks so much and I so wish they would have them more often. I used to go to an Independent Baptist and they only had these old ones, they used to spontaneously sing in parts,too.

Immortal invisible God only wise..my favourite!

“Dear Lord and Father of Mankind”. I do love a good rousing hymn.

I must put that on the list for my funeral!
Forgive our foolish ways.

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My singing group is doing a beautiful song that I hadn’t heard before: Do You Hear What I Hear? (although not that old).

It's lovely.

A Christmas song

Witzend

I love most of the traditional hymns and carols. A special favourite is ‘Eternal Father Strong To Save’ (for those in peril on the sea) - it was my father’s favourite - during WW2 he was in the RN and was lucky to survive 2 years of the Battle of the Atlantic. We played it at his funeral.

Yes, it was sung at my father's funeral too.
It's sung at RN reunions.

My grandmother used to always sing " Shall we gather by the River" while doing her housework. I would give alot to just hear her singing it again, also every time I hear it played I want to cry.

Lovely thread thank you

I have to admit,having revisited the words of From Greenland’s Icy Mountain, they do exude an element of missionary zeal that I find unpalatable these days. It was of it’s time I suppose.

Oh Gosh a trip down memory lane there. Shall We Gather by the River and Hills of the North Rejoice. The latter number 64 in
the hymn book. I used to look for it with eager anticipation.

" Isles of the Southern Seas" Wonderful words.

Some Easter hymns are lovely - Thine Be The Glory, and There Is A Green Hill Far Away.

Love all the Christmas Carols. Going to two Carol concerts this December.

Dear Lord and Father of Mankind always reminds me of school assemblies.

The first time I heard that hymn, apart from in films, was at a service on a cruise ship, where there were lot of Americans. Goosebumps time!

My favourite since childhood is “Hills of the North Rejoice” and From Greenland’s Icy Mountains” (even when we had no idea where Greenland was!).
Also “All Creatures of our God and King”
“Glad that I live am I”
“I Vow to thee my country” and
“Dear Lord and Father of Mankind”. I do love a good rousing hymn.

Ashcombe I love I come to the garden… - my mother used to sing it.

nanna8

I was listening to this beautiful old hymn and thinking we rarely hear these old hymns these days - not in my church anyway ( Presbyterian). A pity ,because I would hate for them to be lost. Another one is Nearer my God to Me, always brings tears to my eyes. The one they played at the sinking of the Titanic. Tell us some other lovely ones!

Onward Christian Soldiers has always been my favourite. A rousing hymn.

My singing group is doing a beautiful song that I hadn’t heard before: Do You Hear What I Hear? (although not that old).

It is the old tunes that are most evocative. New ones seem to be both over-simplified and unmemorable - and old lyrics married to new tunes are unsingable too.

And I really love O Come O Come Emmanuel, which they’re playing just now on Classic. It was always the first we ever sang during Advent at school - so it was very exciting, because it meant Christmas was coming.

Witzend that was my late exfil's favourite too. He was in the Fleet Air arm in WW2 and his mother used to weep while singing it in church