Christian hymnology is instinct with them and not a little of our noblest poetry.
Christian hymnology would need much editing before it would serve New Thought purposes; the whole conception of prayer would need to be altered.
He fills so large a space in the hymnologyand religious history of Wales that he will necessarily reappear in other pages of this chapter.
Perhaps no line in all familiar hymnology more readily suggests the name of its author than this.
English Hymnology would as unwillingly part with his missionary hymns,-- The king of glory we proclaim.
Perhaps the most notable feature in the early hymnology of the Oriental Church was its Resurrection songs.
There is nothing so majestic in Protestant hymnology as this Tersanctus of Bishop Heber.
In all persuasive hymnology there is no more kindling lyric that this.
Many have been the vain attempts to go behind the returns of Vedic hymnology and reduce Indra, Agni, and Soma to terms of a purely naturalistic religion.
Leclercq, in the Dictionnaire D' Archeologie Chretienne et de Liturgie, probably the best short account in any language, containing a section on the hymnology of the first three centuries.
The problem of music is outside the province of this paper but is involved in any serious study of hymnologyat any period of its development.
Even after Greek and Roman influences were strongly felt, hymnology retained this traditional Semitic character and pagan lyrics were held in suspicion.
It reveals not only the continuity of the Old and New Testament hymnology but also the evolution of worship in song into the early Christian era.
Introduction There is no part of the general field of Christian hymnology so baffling to the student or so full of difficulties as the one under consideration in this paper.
It is composed in dactylic meter, affording another illustration of the adoption of popular rhythms in the hymnology of the heretical sects.
No student can leave the consideration of early Christian hymnology without a sense of defeat.
From the ample stores of Oriental hymnology there have come into modern collections many of their gems, thanks to the scholarship and versifying skill of Dr.
This means that children should come to know the hymnology of the church; they should know the words and the music of such worthy and inspiring hymns as are adapted to their age and understanding.
The church seriously needs a revival of religious hymnologyfor children.
Few, if any, writers have sufficiently investigated this branch of ecclesiastical history, the evidence of the hymnology of the church.
The next period of hymnology is what we have termed the barbarian, because it began at the time when the northern invaders were settling down in the various parts of Europe, which had fallen to their arms.
The modern sectaries succeed best in their hymnology when they choose simple ideas, not too definite in content, and clothe them, as Whittier did, in words of tender human association, in parables of longing and of consolation.
The "common metre" of English hymnology is thus seen to be a rough mould into which almost any kind of religious emotion may be poured.
Then the Christian hymnology of India is already a rapidly growing power.
The indebtedness of religion to poetry which is thus expressed in the hymnology of the church is very large.
The psalmody and hymnology of the church furnish a vast preserve, the exploration of which would be a large undertaking.
By common consent in all American hymnology the hymn commencing "My faith looks up to Thee, Thou Lamb of Calvary," etc, is the best.
