What are your favorite hymns?

**SUV** · 01-25-2007, 09:18 PM

Re: What are your favorite hymns?

"Oh! The Blood of Jesus!" Which I Believe was the theme song of the Landover Baptist Church message board some years ago.

"Kill the Unbelievers" sounds rather peppy - perhaps we could upgrade to this? Pastor - Please?

**Darren Ingram-Myers** · 01-25-2007, 10:39 PM

Re: What are your favorite hymns?

"They'll Know We Are Christians by Our Love"

**Pastor Ezekiel** · 01-26-2007, 12:02 AM

Re: What are your favorite hymns?

"The squaws along the Yukon" is an old classic hymn that my grandfather used to sing with me.

On a more contemporary note, "Drop Kick Me Jesus Through The Goalposts Of Life" still gives me chills when I hear it sung.

There are a couple of nigra hymns that I find pleasing to the ear on occasion, but I don't know their titles of course. I can't understand their gibberish chatter, but the harmonies can be good and I can make out the word "Jesus" once in awhile. My servants burst out in such song at random times, and I allow it if its entertaining.

**Brother Temperance** · 01-26-2007, 09:54 PM

Re: What are your favorite hymns?

A few uplifting favourites:
Fleeting Days

Time! what an empty vapor 'tis!
Our days, how swift they are,
Swift as an Indian arrow flies,
Or like a shooting star.

Our life is ever on the wing,
And death is ever nigh;
The moment when our lives begin,
We all begin to die.

Mortality

Death, like an overflowing stream,
Sweeps us away; our life's a dream,
An empty tale, a morning flow'r,
Cut down and withered in an hour.

Our age to sev'nty years is set;
How short the time! How frail the state!
And if to eighty we arrive,
We'd rather sigh and groan than live.

Teach us, Oh Lord, how frail is man;
And kindly lengthen out the span,
Till a wise care of piety
Fit us to die and dwell with Thee.

Farewell Anthem

My friends, I am going a long and tedious journey,
Never to return. Fare you well my friends,
And God grant we may meet together in that world above,
Where trouble shall cease and harmony shall abound.

Hark! Hark! my dear friends, for death hath called me,
And I must go, and die down in the cold and silent grave,
Where the mourners cease from mourning and the pris'ner is set free:
Where the rich and poor are both alike.
Fare you well, my friends.

Praise Him

I'll praise Him while He gives me breath,
I long to praise Him after death.
I'll praise Him when I'm called to die,
And shout salvation when I die.

Time soon shall stop my fleeting breath,
And in His arms resigned to death,
My trembling soul to all can tell
That Jesus doeth all things well.

Then I shall see Him face to face,
And praise Him in that holy place.
My theme Through all eternity
Shall glory, glory, glory be.

Funeral Thought

Thou art gone to the grave, but we will not deplore thee,
Though sorrows and darkness encompass the tomb;
The Savior has passed through its portals before thee,
And the lamp of His love is thy guide through the gloom.

Thou art gone to the grave, we no longer behold thee,
Nor tread the rough paths of the world by thy side;
But wide arms of mercy are spread to enfold thee,
And all sinners may hope, since the Savior hath died.

Thou art gone to the grave, and thy cradle's forsaken,
With us thy fond spirit did not tarry long,
But sunshine of heaven beamed bright on thy waking,
And the sound thou didst hear was the seraphim's song.

Thou art gone to the grave, but 'twere wrong to deplore thee,
When God was thy ransom, thy guardian and guide;
He gave thee, and took thee, and soon will restore thee,
Where death hath no sting, since the Savior hath died.

Save, Lord, or We Perish

When through the torn sail the wild tempest is streaming,
When o'er the dark wave the red lightning is gleaming,
Nor hope lends a ray the poor seaman to cherish,
We fly to our maker, save, Lord or we perish.

Sorry to make such a long post, but once I get into that swingin' mood, I just can't stop, you know what I'm saying?

**lilith** · 01-27-2007, 04:07 AM

Re: What are your favorite hymns?

Not exactly a hymn...but I like it.

Holy Willie's Prayer by Rabbie Burns.

http://www.robertburns.org/works/70.shtml

Especially this bit:

I own t'was rash ,an' rather hardy
That I,a simple country Bardie,
Should meddle wi' a pack sae sturdy,
Wha,if they ken me
Can easy,wi' a single wordie,
Lowse hell upon me

But I gae mad at their grimaces,
Their sighin,cantin,grace-proud faces,
Their three-mile prayers,an' half-mile
graces,
Their raxin conscience,
Whase greed,revenge & pride
disgraces
Waur nor their nonsense

There's Gaw'n,miscad waur than a
beast
Wha has mair honour in his breast
Than mony scores as guid's the priest
Wha sae abus'd him:
And may a bard no crack his jest
What way they've us'd him?