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Jacob Silva f r o m : Wharton, Texas
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Oct 11 2009 12:03AM
Great
I like how songs that were alike were grouped together or at least a page apart. The only thing I don't like is how there is a responsive reading type thing at the begging of a new section of songs. but over all its great.
P.S. the only song I really like is missing and that is "O beautiful Garden I Adore Thee"
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Betty
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Nov 25 2007 4:43PM
don't have it yet
I am looking for a softback hymnal. Do you have one at this store?
thanks
betty berger
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f r o m : Simpsonville, SC
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Mar 29 2007 5:32PM
Great
I really like this hymnal. My church has used it for years. I have grown up using it. I play the piano and the organ and it is my hymnal of choice. I have a copy of the 1956 and 1975 Baptist Hymnals and the 1991 edition is missing a few hymns that were in the 1956 edition, but altogether I think this edition is great.
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Stephanie f r o m : Kentucky
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Feb 21 2005 12:30PM
A welcome update!
I am so excited because our church has decided to purchase the 1991 edition of the Baptist Hymnal! Two of my favorite songs missing in the 1979 edition ("And Can It Be" and "I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day") are in this edition along with quite a few modern songs and choruses. It follows the format of the older hymnal closely enough that even our oldest members feel comfortable, but it also includes some updates which the younger generation and music lovers in general greatly appreciate. My only question is "When is the next new edition coming out?"
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John R. Mizell f r o m : Summerville, SC
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Sep 23 2004 8:53AM
Above average... Modern... but Missing a Few Gems
Don't get me wrong... I thoroughly enjoy the selection of songs in this hymnal, both old classics and new contemporary, but it's missing some of my favorites from childhood for some reason or another... such as:
Almost Persuaded,
Another Day is Dawning,
Bring Them In,
Bringing in the Sheaves,
Let the Lower Lights Be Burning,
Every Day With Jesus,
Thanksgiving,
Our Best,
His Way With Thee,
Where We'll Never Grow Old,
Jesus Loves Even Me,
Peace, Be Still!,
Must I Go and Empty-Handed,
The Haven of Rest,
O Holy Night,
The Unclouded Day,
Seal Us O Holy Spirit,
Some Sweet Day,
Take Me As I Am,
That Will Be Glory For Me,
The Light of the World is Jesus,
The Lord Bless Thee and Keep Thee,
Sweet Peace the Gift of God's Love,
We Three Kings,
While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks,
Why Do You Wait,
Work for the Night is Coming
All of those listed are MIA (missing in action), and they're GREAT hymns! If not for these exceptions, it would have received a 5 out of 5 from me... Maybe on the next update/version they will add these back in? Who knows?
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Aug 4 2004 12:17PM
Great old hymns in a badly designed hymnal
This hymnal is a mixture of strengths and weaknesses. Its chief strength is that it contains a large collection of beautiful hymns that include all of the old favorites. These are arranged in traditional four-part harmony that evokes the memory of church services from long ago. As I play them, the faces of our old congregation pass before my eyes. Another strength of this hymnal is that it is sturdy and well-bound, so it should stand up to many years of use and abuse. Unfortunately, these strengths are offset by serious flaws. Chief among them is that this hymnal fails badly as a book. What I mean by this is that it completely ignores important book-making conventions that readers have relied on for centuries. As a result, it is unpleasant and frustrating to search for a hymn you want to sing. To illustrate this problem, imagine that you want to find a particular hymn...let's say "The Old Rugged Cross". Like me, you would probably open the hymnal and flip through the pages, expecting the songs to be arranged alphabetically according to their titles. But they're not. Instead, they have been segregated according to broad categories, such as: "God and Country" and "Grace and Assurance". In which of these totally arbitrary categories will "The Old Rugged Cross" be found? I couldn't begin to guess, and neither can anybody else. To make matters worse, there is no apparent rhyme or reason to the order of hymns within these categories or even to the order of the categories themselves! Your second strategy might be to flip to the front of the hymnal and look in the table of contents. But here again, this book fails badly. That’s because the table of contents -- which ALWAYS appears at the front of a proper book -- has been replaced by many pages of pointless and unenlightening "introduction" and by tasteless back-slapping and self congratulation. Believe it or not, the hymnal begins with an exhaustive list of each and every person who had (or at least might have had) the slightest involvement in the production of this book. This left me with the impression that the hymnal’s “design team” was more interested in praising themselves than in helping congregations praise God through music. And if you patiently wade through this very unfortunate display of “it’s all about me” egotism, you will eventually find a table of contents that is utterly worthless. Instead of listing the hymns, it only lists the general categories into which they've been arbitrarily organized. But as I’ve already said, this is no help, since I have no idea into which category “The Old Rugged Cross” was randomly assigned. I could go on with similar criticisms, since this book invites so many. But in the interest of brevity, I'll just say that I finally discovered an obscure index near the back of the book that lists songs by their titles. But this index is not only inaccurate and incomplete, it's also hidden among other indexes, which make it nearly impossible to find! Among these is a totally useless index of authors. Seriously, have you ever tried to locate all hymns written by Augustus Toplady? Can you even imagine doing so? What we want is to find “Shall We Gather At the River”, but this hymnal’s designers have made that nearly impossible! Due to this hymnal’s odd mixture of strengths and weaknesses, I am ambivalent about it. On the positive side, it contains a rich collection of well arranged hymns…although you may need divine assistance to locate the one you want. On the negative side, this hymnal’s flaws remind me that the health of the church depends not only on our personal relationships with God but on the quality of our leaders. And this hymnal fails so badly as a book that it raises uncomfortable questions about those leaders. Are they so ignorant, incompetent or indifferent to convention that they neither know nor care how a proper book is organized? Worse, why must they place the names of the “Worship Aids Committee” before the hymns themselves? Is that what a “Baptist Hymnal” has become…a way to promote its “creators” to a position of glory? Setting that issue aside for my private contemplation, I will simply say that if you can endure this hymnal’s serious flaws, I believe you will find that it contains a wonderful collection of beautiful music.
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