[3]Henry Ward Beecher placed a high value on the song service of the church: “I have never loved men under any circumstances as I have loved them while singing with them; never at any other time have I been so near heaven with you, as in those hours when our songs were wafted thitherward.”
[4]“In all great religious movements the people have been inspired with a passion for singing. They have sung their creed: it seems the freest and most natural way of declaring their triumphant belief in great Christian truths, forgotten or denied in previous times of spiritual depression and now restored to their rightful place in the thought and life of the Church. Song has expressed and intensified their enthusiasm, their new faith, their new joy, their new determination to do the will of God.” (Dr. W. R. Dale.)
[5]Pratt, Musical Ministries.
[6]Ephesians 5: 18-20.
[7]Colossians 3: 16.
[8]I Corinthians 14: 15.
[9]Over three-quarters of a century ago, this lament was made by a prominent New England minister: “Many a man, who carefully interrogates his own experience, will confess that, while the voice of public prayer readily engages his attention and carries with it his devout desires, it is not so with the act of praise; that he very seldom finds his affections rising upon its notes to heaven—very seldom can he say at its close that he has worshiped God. The song has been wafted near him as a vehicle for conveying upward the sweet odor of a spiritual service, but the offering has been withheld, and the song ascends as empty of divine honors as a sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal.” (Rev. Daniel L. Furber, in Hymns and Choirs.)

CHAPTER III

[1]“To get behind the hymnbook to the men and women who wrote its contents, and to the events, whether personal or public, out of which it sprang and which it so graciously mirrors, is to enter a world palpitating with human interest. For a hymnbook is a transcript of real life, a poetical accompaniment to real events and real experiences. Like all literature that counts, it rises directly out of life.” (Frederick J. Gillman, in The Evolution of the English Hymn. [New York: The Macmillan Co., 1927.] Used by permission.)
[2]J. Balcom Reeves, The Hymn in History and Literature. (New York: D. Appleton-Century Co., 1924). Used by permission.
[3]“There is an inclination to fence in what are called ‘literary lyrics,’ as if to fence out singing lyrics! Now there is, of course, a distinction between poems meant to be sung and poems written in the pattern of lyrical poetry, but never meant to be sung; but the terminology which classes one kind as literary, thereby implying that the other kind is not of the realm of literature, is inaccurate and unhappy.” Ibid.
[4]“In his volume, The English Lyric, Professor Felix E. Schelling virtually disposes of the hymn with the remark that ‘we may or may not “accept” certain hymns, but we do not have to read them.’ That is readily granted—unless, of course, one wishes to know them or to write just criticism about them.” Ibid.
[5]“Frequently a hymn is a prayer; and it is a rule for the structure of prayers that they exclude all those recondite figures, dazzling comparisons, flashing metaphors, which, while grateful to certain minds of poetic excitability, are offensive to more sober and staid natures, and are not congenial with the lowly spirit of a suppliant at the throne of grace. A simile may be shining, but it may not be exactly chaste; and a hymn prefers pure beauty to bedizening ornament.” (Dr. Edwards A. Park, in Hymns and Choirs.)
[6]These numbers, of course, refer to the number of syllables in a line.

CHAPTER IV

[1]The vagaries of credit for writing given hymns is illustrated in the appearance of the intensely Calvinistic Toplady’s name as the writer of Charles Wesley’s intensely Arminian “Blow ye the trumpet, blow.”
[2]Those who care to make a fuller study of the revision of hymns than the following discussion affords are referred to the full treatment of the subject, and to the abundant cases cited, by Professor Edwards A. Park, D.D., of Andover Theological Seminary, in Hymns and Choirs, issued in 1860 by Drs. Austin Phelps, Edwards A. Park, and Daniel L. Furber. The lapse of years has in no way diminished the value of this volume. It is unfortunately out of print and inaccessible to the average pastor, outside of public libraries.

CHAPTER V

[1]“But the emotional life, strongest, no doubt, in youth, remains a lifelong element of personality and especially of the religious personality. Feeling is not merely an integral part of religious experience, it is central, vital, its inmost core. William James speaks of it as the deeper source of religion, and says that ‘philosophical and theological formulas come below it in importance. It is the dynamic factor in the religious life. When it is absent, religion degenerates into mere formalism or barren intellectualism.’” (Gillman, in The Evolution of the English Hymn.)
[2]Rev. Louis F. Benson, D.D., in The Hymnody of the Christian Church. (New York: Harper and Bros., 1927.) Used by permission.

CHAPTER VII

[1]Dr. Harris says of his discovery, “The manuscript had been lying with a heap of other stray leaves of manuscript on the shelves of my library without awakening any suspicion that it contained a lost hymnbook of the early Church of the apostolic times, or at the very latest of the sub-apostolic times.”

CHAPTER VIII

[1]There is frequent lament that in the translations of Greek, Latin, and German hymns into English much of the original beauty is lost. But the converse is also true: that such translators as Neale, Brownlie, and Palmer have taken the uncut diamonds of the Greek and Latin Fathers and so transformed them by their lapidarian skill that the world-wide Christian Church is rejoicing in their beauty.
[2]The Te Deum has only slight claims to Greek origin and is postponed to a later chapter.
[3]In like manner the rationalists of the age of Frederick the Great of Prussia sought to prevent the use of the Lutheran hymns; the Arians in the pre-Wesleyan times contended for the psalm versions without doxologies recognizing the Trinity; in our own day, extreme Modernists belittle Christian hymns as dogmatic and unpoetical and urge the use of sociological hymns.
[4]This transfer of the song to clerical singers soon had its inevitable result. Jerome begins to be apprehensive that the form of singing would come to have too exclusive consideration. He complained that those who led the song, like comedians, “smoothed their throats with soft drinks in order to render their melodies more impressive, and that the heart alone can properly make melody to God.“

CHAPTER IX

[1]“The Greek language lived long and died slowly, and the Christian hymn writers wrote in its decadence.” (Rev. John Brownlie, in his preface to Hymns of the Greek Church.)
[2]The canon is an elaborate service consisting of nine odes or hymns of different forms.

CHAPTER X

[1]“Jesus, the very thought of Thee” (Caswall) or “Jesus, Thou joy of loving hearts” (Palmer).
[2]“O sacred Head, now wounded,” translated by James W. Alexander from Paul Gerhardt’s “O Haupt voll Blut and Wunden,” a German version of the Latin hymn above.
[3]Imagine a poem of such length in the difficult “Leonine hexameter” of which the following translated lines will give an inkling:

“These are the latter times, these are not better times, let us stand waiting!

Lo, how with awfulness, He, first in lawfulness, comes arbitrating.”

Dr. Neale wisely reduced his centos to a plain meter, giving them practical usefulness.
[4]Matthew Arnold described it as “the utterance of all that is exquisite in the spirit of its century.” (Quoted by Gillman, in his Evolution of the English Hymn.)

CHAPTER XI

[1]As an indication of how prevalent this singing of religious hymns was, we note the fact that in 1512, twelve years before Luther’s first hymnbook appeared, a collection of Roman Catholic hymns, set to profane tunes, was issued in Venice, Italy.
[2]“To Luther belongs the extraordinary merit of having given to the German people in their own tongue the Bible, the Catechism, and the Hymnbook, so that God might speak directly to them in his Word, and that they might directly answer him in their songs.” Dr. Philip Schaff adds elsewhere that Luther “is the father of the modern High German language and literature,” and that these are the common possession of the Germanic tribes with their diversified dialects from the Adriatic to the Baltic Sea. Erasmus Alber, a contemporary who wrote twenty excellent hymns, calls Luther “the German Cicero, who not only reformed religion, but also the German language.” Hans Sachs, the poet cobbler of Nuremberg, who, besides a great deal of general poetry, also wrote a number of hymns, styled Luther “the nightingale of Wittenberg.”

CHAPTER XII

[1]Dr. Schaff.

CHAPTER XIII

[1]Dr. Louis F. Benson has well characterized this Psalter in its influence on French character: “The metrical Psalter made the Huguenot character. No doubt a character nourished on Old Testament ideals will lack the full symmetry of the Gospel. But the Huguenot was a warrior, first called to fight and suffer for his faith. And in singing psalms he found his confidence and strength.... In the wars of religion, the Psalms in meter were the songs of camp and march, the war cry on the field, the swan song at the martyr’s stake.”
[2]“Of course, psalms in the ballad form were easily learned and kept in memory. And in the days when the ability to read was less general than now, these rhymes, scattered so freely broadcast, took root in many a mind and contributed powerfully to the righteousness and stability of the nation.” (J. Balcom Reeves, in The Hymn in History and Literature.)

CHAPTER XIV

[1]Comparing the English church with the German, Horder exclaims: “The Puritans, indeed, had in their midst a finer poet than Luther, but they never introduced even Milton’s superb renderings of certain of the Psalms into their worship. What a use Luther would have put Milton to, if he had been a member of his church! What songs he would have written! Aye, what music, too!”
[2]“Thus the psalms have been at once an inspiration and a bondage: an inspiration in that they have kindled the fire which has produced the hymnody of the entire church; a bondage, because, by stereotyping religious expression, they robbed the heart of the right to express in its own words the fears, the joys, the hopes that the Divine Spirit had kindled in their souls.” (W. Garrett Horder, in The Hymn Lover.)
[3]Thomas Wright in his recent Life of Isaac Watts remarks: “Earlier in this work I referred to Watts’ enthusiasm for, and his indebtedness to, John Mason, who deserves rather than any other writer the name of the Father of the Modern Hymn. If there had not been a Mason there would never have been a Watts.”

CHAPTER XV

[1]It is perhaps needless to say that the word “vulgar” did not have the opprobrious connotation that it inevitably brings today. It simply meant “ordinary.”
[2]George W. Garrett Horder, in The Hymn Lover.

CHAPTER XVI

[1]“It was their love of social psalmody that made Methodist hymnody what it was, and it was the desire to better parochial psalmody that furnished John Wesley with the original motive of his work in hymnody.” (Dr. Louis F. Benson, in The English Hymn. [New York: Harper and Bros.] Used by permission.)
[2]“John Wesley was a good writer and preacher, and possessed extensive learning. He was a man of unfailing perseverance, great self-denial, large liberality, singular devotedness to his Master’s service, and eminent piety. But perhaps his most remarkable gift was the power he possessed of making men willing to fall in with his purposes and of organizing systematic action for the benefit of his followers.” (Josiah Miller, in Singers and Songs of the Church.)
[3]“Wesley, like Watts, wrote very freely and spontaneously, as the thousands of lyrics he wrote bear witness. Not all of them were good; much of the verse reminds one of a painter’s tentative sketches. But had he not freely written so many, he might not have written the smaller number so consummately well.” (J. Balcom Reeves, in The Hymn in History and Literature.)
[4]“The Wesley hymnbooks constitute an extraordinary interesting human document, palpitating with real life. Every event of those wonderful years, every experience, public or private, through which the singers passed, is mirrored in some sweet song. But there is more in them than that. They are Pilgrim’s Progress in verse. They trace the religious life of every man as he travels from the City of Destruction to the Celestial City. They unfold the spiritual drama of man, his hopes and fears, his aspirations and affections, his failures and victories; each chequered experience trembles into songs, and scarcely a note is missing. Springing from the heart of the eighteenth century, their music seems to drown its licentiousness and frivolity in paeans of praise.” (Frederick J. Gillman, in The Evolution of the English Hymn.)
[5]Charles Wesley’s best hymns—and who would dare estimate his genius on any other basis?—meet John Drinkwater’s two tests of vital poetry:
(1) It must spring from vital and intense personal experience.
(2) It must transfer to the reader by “pregnant and living words” the ecstasy that swelled the heart of the poet.
[6]“The style of Watts is austere, objective, formal; the style of Wesley is warm, subjective, intimate.” (J. Balcom Reeves, in The Hymn in History and Literature.)
[7]Dr. Benson in his exhaustive treatise on The English Hymn remarks: “The Wesleys inaugurated a great spiritual revival; and their hymns did as much as any human agency to kindle and replenish its fervor.... John Wesley led an ecclesiastical revolt and, failing to conquer his own church, established a new one of phenomenal proportions: the hymns prefigured the constitution of the new church and formed the manual of its spiritual discipline.”
[8]He frankly expressed his inhospitable attitude: “Were we to encourage little poets, we should soon be overrun.”

CHAPTER XVII

[1]The Oxford or Tractarian Movement on the one hand sought a deeper spiritual life than was then prevalent, and on the other emphasized the solidarity of the Church of Christ before and after the Reformation. It recognized the authority of the pre-Reformation theology and of the associated ceremonial liturgy. Many of its leaders entered the Roman Catholic Church, accepting even its worship of Mary, the mother of Jesus, and of the saints.

CHAPTER XVIII

[1]The condition of congregational singing at this time is reported by Rev. Thomas Walter as follows: “Our tunes are left to the mercy of every unskilful throat to chop and alter, to twist and change, according to their infinitely diverse and no less odd humors and fancies. I have myself paused twice in one note to take breath. No two men in the congregation quaver alike or together; it sounds in the ears of a good judge like five hundred tunes roared out at the same time with perpetual interferings with one another.”
[2]It is related of a New England minister, Rev. T. Bellamy, that after the choir had outdone all its past discord and blundering in rendering the Psalm, he announced another and admonished his choir, “You must try again, for it is impossible to preach after such singing.”

CHAPTER XIX

[1]Dr. S. Weir Mitchell.
[2]Dr. Louis F. Benson says of Charles Wesley’s “Jesus, lover of my soul”: “The suspicion remains that the secret of its appeal lies in a poetic beauty that the average man feels without analyzing it, and in a perfection of craftsmanship that makes him want to sing it simply because it awakens the spirit of song in him, rather than a mood of reflection.”
[3]The Wesleyan doctrine of the Second Work, or Holiness, now known as “The Victorious Life.”
[4]It will be a good introduction to this minute study to work out the Biblical authority for the dozen or more allusions.
[5]Hebrews 12:1.
[6]Fleming H. Revell Co. New York.
[7]A full discussion of hymn tunes will be found in Chapters X to XII of Music in Work and Worship or in Chapters V to X in Practical Church Music, of which books the present writer is the author. Both published by Fleming H. Revell Co. New York.

CHAPTER XX

[1]A fuller discussion of this topic will be found in Chapter XXIX of Music in Work and Worship, by the present writer.
[2]When Moody was superintendent of a Sunday school in Chicago, he had a vicious boy in one of the classes whom he had reprimanded again and again for disturbing the meeting. Finally one Sunday the boy was unusually fractious and Moody turned to his chorister and said, “When I get up and walk up the aisle, you start ‘Hold the Fort’ as vigorously as you can.” While the song was being sung with much enthusiasm, Moody dragged the boy out of the class by the collar, took him to an adjacent room, and punished him drastically while the school sang and submerged the boy’s cries. The boy grew up, became a minister, and often told with glee the story of how Moody started the work of grace in his heart.

CHAPTER XXII

[1]In regular services, single verse tunes may be played through, but only the last half of double verse tunes should be allowed, lest the momentum gained by the introductory comment be lost.

GENERAL INDEX

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A
Adam of St. Victor123
Addison, Joseph167
Adolphus, Gustavus138
Ainsworth’s Version155
Alber, Erasmus136
Albigenses128
Aldhelm, Bishop150
Alexander, Mrs. Cecil Frances206
Alexander, William153
Alline, Harry212
Ambrose of Milan120, 124
American Hymnody, Beginnings of208
American Hymns, Early Collections of213
American Psalmody155-157
American Recent Hymn Writers222-225
Anatolius115
Andrew of Crete116
Annesley, Rev. Samuel181
Annesley, Susanna181
Announcement of Hymns266-8
Appelles, von Loewenstein139
Aquinas, Thomas125
Arndt, Ernst Moritz144
Arnold, Matthew57, 58
Austin, John164
B
Bacon, Dr. Leonard218
Bakewell, John189
Baring-Gould, Sabine207
Barnby, Joseph207
Barton, Bernard203
Barton, William165
Basil, Saint50
Baxter, Richard163, 167
Bay Psalm Book156, 209
Benedicite, The111
Benson, Louis F.7, 62, 65, 85, 133, 174, 225
Bernard of Clairvaux124
Bernard of Cluny125
Beza, Theodore150
Bliss, P. P.51, 91, 224
Bonar, Horatius207
Bourgeois150
Bowring, Sir John204
Bradbury, William B.51
Brady, Nicholas154
Bromehead, Joseph164
Brooks, Bishop Phillips51, 222, 223
Brown, Phoebe Hinsdale214
Brownlie, Rev. Dr. John114
Bryant, William Cullen220
Buchanan, George143, 147
Byles, Mather211
Byrom, John178
C
Caedmon158
Calkin, J. Baptiste219
Calvin, John148
Campbell, Thomas155
Campion, Thomas161
Candlelight Hymn110
Canon, Golden116
Canon, Pentecostarion116
Canons, Queen of116
Canon, The Great116
Canon, Triodion116
Carlyle, Thomas135
Caswall, Edward126, 204
Celano, Thomas of126
Cennick, John190
Character of German Hymnody146
Charlemagne124
Christian Lyre215
Christian Year200
Church Poetry218
Clement of Alexandria109
Coleman, Dr. Lyman106
Compendious Booke of Gude and Godlie Ballates150
Concordant Discord of a Broken-Hearted Heart164
Conder, Josiah204
Cosin, Bishop124
Cosmas116
Cotterill, Thomas202
Coverdale, Miles150
Cowley, Robert151
Cowper, William, Life of196, 197
Coxe, Bishop Arthur Cleveland223
Crosby, Fanny51, 261
D
Damiana, Cardinal123
Da Todi, Jacopone127
Davies, Samuel211
Decius, Nicolaus136
De la Motte Fouque144
Dexter, Henry M.110
Doane, Bishop George W.219
Doane, William H.51, 270
Doddridge, Philip233, 238
Doddridge, Relative Standing178
Duffield, George, Jr.222
Dundee Psalms150
Dunster and Lyon156
Dwight, Timothy (Pres.)210
E
Earliest English Hymns158
Eber, Paul136
Edmeston, James203
Eliot, John156
Emergency Hymns260
English Literary Ideals Discourage Hymn Writing159
English Psalmody Submerges English Hymnody159
English Psalm Versions Before Sternhold150
F
Faber, Frederick W.206, 235
Fawcett, John60, 191
Finney, Charles G.51, 214
Fitting Hymn Tunes to Congregations249
Flagellant Monks131
Fleming, Paul139
Francis of Assisi126
Francke, August Hermann141
Franck, John140
Franklin, Benjamin210
Freylinghausen, Johann A.141
Fuller, Thomas155
Furber, Rev. Daniel L.7
G
Gates, Ellen H.91
Gellert, Christian Fuerchtegott139, 142
Genevan Psalter150
Gerhardt, Paul139
German Te Deum138
Gerok, Karl von146
Ghoostly Psalms and Spiritual Songs150
Gill, Thomas Hornblower58
Gilman, Frederick J.155
Gilmore, Joseph H.91, 224
Gladden, Washington51, 224
Gloria in Excelsis111
Gloria Patri112
Goethe126
Gospel Hymn, The89
Adaptation to Practical Work96-99
Advantages of98
Almost Universal Use89
Discrimination in Use of Gospel Songs Needed98
Judged by Results90
Lack of Discrimination of Critics91
Precursors of90
Standard Hymns92
Unfair Comparisons93
Wrong Assumptions92
Goudimel150
Grant, Sir Robert203, 230, 235
Great Hymnic Themes88
Gregory of Nazianzus114
Gregory the Great124
Grigg, Joseph192
H
Hammond, William235
Hankey, Kate91
Hardenberg, Friedrich von144
Harris, Dr. Rendell107
Hastings, Thomas91, 215, 216
Havergal, Frances Ridley207
Hawks, Mrs. Annie S.91, 234
Heath, George75
Heber, Bishop Reginald84, 199, 232
Hedge, Frederick H.135
Herbert, Geo.36, 162
Hermannus Contractus124
Herrick, Robert163
Hewitt, Eliza Edmunds91
Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers120, 130
Hiller141
Holden, Oliver213
Holmes, Oliver Wendell220
Hopper, Rev. Edw.91, 224
Horder, W. Garrett25, 160, 166
Hosmer, Rev. Frederick L.224
How, Bishop W. W.206
Hoyt, Dr. A. S.96
Hunter, Rev. William91
Huntington, Countess of194
Huss, John, of Prague131
Hyde, Abby B.214
Hymnal as a Text Book of Theology84-86
Hymnal, Making a Personal240-242
Hymn Lover, The25
Hymnology, Works on7-8
Hymns35
Adjusted to Mass Singing74
As a Pedagogic Device74
As Literature53
As Poetry27
Changes in63-75
Character of changes67-72
John Wesley as Reviser70-72
Limits of author’s rights65
Minor changes in hymns73-75
Often needless64
Return to originals65
Rights of authors65
Christocentric31
Congregational or Singing Hymn27
Create Religious Atmosphere72
Definition of Hymn25
Definition of Hymn by Dr. Benson28
Distinctly Religious30
Earliest Hymns110
Early Greek Hymns114
Efficiency of Hymns21
Excessive “Ego” in Hymns81
Flaws in Hymns by Standard Writers94
Ignorance of Hymns21
Importance of Hymns17
Impulse to Write Hymns40
In Apostolic Times104
Indifference to Hymns50-52
Influence of Purpose on Writing40-43
In the Epistles105
Limitations of58
Literary Criticism of41, 55-57
Means of Emotional Expression43
Meters of33, 59-61
Of the Apocalypse106
Of the Social Gospel87
Origin and Development of Apostolic Hymns104
Place of Hymns17
Practicability of34
Purpose of Singing Hymns42
Purpose of User42
Relation of Hymns to God76-8
Relation of Hymns to Singer79-82
Scriptural, Must be31
Source of103
Special Subjects87
Succeeded Psalms103
Supreme Theme of88
Taken from Congregation112
Too Intense245
Use in Propaganda112
Valuable Aids in Services242
Value of40-46
“Hymns Ancient and Modern”54
Hymn Sermons and Services254
Hymns of the Protestant Episcopal Church218
I
Irons, Rev. W. J.126
J
James I of England153
John of Damascus116
Johnson, Dr. Samuel56
Joseph of the Studium117
Jonas, Justus136
K
Keble, John199, 200, 232, 235
Kelly, Thomas201
Ken, Bishop Thomas72, 164
Key, Francis S.219
“King” and “Queen” Chorales137
King Conrad131
Klopstock, Friedrich G.143
Knapp, Albert145
Knox, John153
Knox’s Version153
Krummacher, Friedrich Adolph145
L
Language of Post-Apostolic Hymns111
Later American Orthodox Hymnists222
Lathbury, Mary Artemisia223
Latin Psalm Version by Geo. Buchanan151
Lavater, Johann Kasper144
Leavitt, Rev. Joshua214
Leland, John213
Literary Trend in English Hymns198
Lollards, The50
Lowry, Robert51
Luther and Calvin148
Luther and the Vernacular Hymn130
Luther, Martin130
Luther’s Great Chorale134
Luther’s Hymn Collections134
Luther’s Relation to German Hymnody132
Luther’s Tunes136
Lyte, Henry Francis204
M
MacDonald, George167, 178
Madan, Rev. Martin72, 194
Marot, Clement149
Marriott, John203
Marseillaise Hymn83
Martineau, Dr. James41, 187
Mason, John166
Mason, Lowell91, 215-217
Mather, Cotton157
Mather, Richard156
Matheson, Dr. George208
Medieval Popular Hymnody146
Medley, Rev. Samuel192, 235
Memorizing Hymns243
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix138
Methodist Hymnal93
Methods of Hymn Study234-240
Meyfart, Johannes139
Milman, Henry Hart75, 199, 200
Milton, John160
Montgomery, James56, 64, 155, 190, 201-2
Montgomery, James, as Critic202
Moore, Thomas200
Moravians181
Morris, Mrs. C. H.224
Mote, Edward73
Mozart, Wolfgang A.126
Muhlenberg, Rev. William Augustus218
N
Neale, Dr. Mason115, 125, 205
Neumark, Georg138
Newman, Cardinal John Henry51, 204
New Presbyterian Hymnal93
Newton and Cowper195
Newton, John, Life of195
Nicolai, Philipp137
North, Frank Mason224
Notker, called Balbulus123, 124
O
Occom, Samson212
Odes of Solomon106
Odo of Cluny123
Olivers, Thomas189
Olney Hymns (Newton)195
Omitting Verses272
Onderdonk, Dr. H. U.219
Opitz, Martin138
P
Palgrave56, 175
Palmer, Ray91, 217-18, 233
Parker, Archbishop154
Parker, Theodore126
Parks, Prof. Edwards A.7
Patrick, Saint159
Paul of Samosata112
Paulus Diaconus123
Perronet, Edward189
Personal Hymnal240-2
Peter the Hermit125
Phelps, Prof. Austin7, 88, 95, 257
Phelps, Dr. Sylvanus Dryden224
Phillips, Philip51
Pietism in German Hymnody144
Planning Music of Service250-53
Popularity of Sternhold and Hopkins Version152
Poteat, Prof. H. M.21
Practical Hymnology21
Practical Hymn Studies242
Prentiss, Mrs. Elizabeth224
Preparing a Congregation to Sing Hymns268-72
Priest, Francis Baker164
Primitive Church, The106
Procter, Adelaide A.231
Proses123
Protestant Te Deum74
Prudentius, Bishop of Poitiers112
Psalmody in America209
Psychology of Psalmody148-9
R
Rabanus, Maurus123
Rankin, Rev. Jeremiah E.91, 224
Rationalism in German Hymnody143
Reeves, Prof. J. Balcom159
Revised Presbyterian Hymnal179
Ringwaldt, Bartolomaeus137
Rinkart, Martin138
Robinson, Robert191, 235
Rodigast141
Roh, Johann136
Root, George F.51
Rous, Francis153
Rous’ Version153
Ruckert, Friedrich145
S
Saint Basil50
Saint Colombo159
Saint Patrick159
Sanctus28
Schade141
Schaff, Dr. Philip134, 143
Scheffler, John140
Schultz141
Scott, Sir Walter127
Seagrave, Robert178
Sears, Edmund Hamilton221
Selborne, Lord134
Selnecker, Nicolaus137
Senfl, Ludwig136
Shurtleff, Ernest W.224
Smith, Samuel F.91, 216
Solomon’s Coronation Song176
Southwell, Robert160
Spafford, Horatio G.91
Spener, Philipp Jacob140
Spengler, Lazarus136
Speratus, Paul134, 136
Spirituals55
Spiritual Songs for Social Worship216-17
Spitta, Karl Johann Philipp145
Steele, Anne125, 191
Stephen, the Sabaite116
Sternhold and Hopkins Versions152
Sternhold, Thomas152
Stite, Edgar F.91
Stone, Samuel J.84
Stowe, Harriet Beecher222, 230
Strong, Nathan212
Studying Hymn Tunes246, 264
Studying Methods of Using Hymns244-47, 249
Study of Hymns, Advantages of229-33
Suggestive Selection of Hymns258-64
Synesius115
T
Tappan, William B.214
Tate and Brady’s Version154
Tate, Nahum154, 209
Tauler, John131
Teaching Truth by Use of Hymns253
Technic of Hymnwriting Established165
Te Deum Laudamus28, 119
Ter Sanctus, The111
Tersteegen, Gerhardt141, 235
Tertullian109
Theodore of the Studium117
Theodulph123
Thomas of Celano126
Thompson, Alexander R.126
Toplady, Augustus Montague190
Toplady’s Hymn Tests194
Treasury of Sacred Songs56
Trench, Archbishop55, 124
Trent, Archbishop125
Troubadours128
Two Values in Singing Hymns248
Types of Hymns76-88
“I” and “My” hymns81
In Relation to God76-9
In Relation to Singer79
U
Unitarian Hymnody in America219
Unity in Selecting Hymns256
V
Valois, Marguerite de149
Value of Psalm Versions157
Van Alstyne, Frances Crosby223
Van Dyke, Dr. Henry235
Venerable Bede, The123, 159
Verse, Secular and Sacred Compared56
W
Waldenses128
Walford, H. W.91
Walther, Johann136
Ware, Henry, Jr.220
Warner, Anna223
Waters, Horace215
Watts and Charles Wesley185
Watts, Isaac41, 62, 169, 235, 238
Watts’ Argument for Hymns172-4
Watts’ First Hymn169
Watts’ Horæ Lyricæ169, 170
Watts’ Hymns in America210
Watts’ Hymns, Value of175
Watts, Life of168
Watts, Stress on Practicability174
Wedderburn Brothers150
Weiss, Michael136
Welde, Thomas156
Wesley Brothers, Relation of182
Wesley, Charles62, 88, 183, 235, 238, 254
Wesley, Charles, as a preacher184
Wesley, Charles, Life of183
Wesley Family, The181
Wesley Hymns, Issues of186
Wesley, John64, 181, 182
Wesley, John, American Collection182
Wesley, John, Changes in Watts’ Hymns70-2
Wesley, John, Character of183
Wesley, John, Life of181
Wesley, Samuel181
Wesleys and the Moravians, The181
Wesleys, Opposition to187
Wesleys, Theology of188
White, Henry Kirke198, 203
Whitfield, George210
Whittier, John G.222
Williams, William189
Winkworth, Catherine138
Withers, George161
Wordsworth, Bishop Christopher38, 84
Z
Zinzendorf, Count Nicholaus Ludwig von182
Zwingli, Ulrich148