The English version is noteworthy for its inclusion of the skilful renderings of the ancient hymns by J.
But when they come to the church, they set their waggons in a circle so as to form, as it were, a spiritual camp, and all the following night the watch is kept by the whole army with hymns and songs of praise.
Miracles were being done on every side, and songs and hymns of praise sung to the Lord.
And it was not only to sing their hymns that the Christians assembled here, but here they passed their lives for fear of persecution.
Here was the first origin of the church, when the early Christians sang their hymnsin these dark places to escape the cruel punishments of the Prefect Quirinus, and yet undaunted by the cross, the sword, the fire of his mad rage.
He surrounded them with his soldiers when they were met together to pray and sing hymns to the Lord, and falling upon them suddenly put them to the sword.
Mediaeval hymns are childlike, having often a narrow clearness in their literal sense; and they may be childlike, too, in their expressed symbolism.
The medieval Latin hymns clothed their transcendent themes, their passionate emotions, in the language of imperial Rome.
Where were those generous observations of the ancients; the effigies of the dead borne on a bed, hymns composed in memory of their virtue, with the oblations of praise and tears?
Most of the psalms are evidentlyhymns to the Sun, as they apply to nothing else.
In one of the Church hymnsit was sung, "Non ex virili, sed mystico spiramine.
Many persons will remember the explanation of an old commentator on the Calendar and Liturgy, of which Keble makes a very effective use in his hymns in the Christian Year set apart for those days.
Even in the fifth century, when St. Jerome boasted that Bethlehem was so completely Christian that the very ploughmen sang psalms and hymnsas they laboured, Gaza still remained devoted to idol-worship.
The hymns they had joined in were sung by other lips.
The hymns were sung very heartily, and the Bishop gave a most helpful address.
The tiny room and the passage outside were crowded with stalwart young soldiers, whose voices sang out the old hymns as though the Germans were miles away.
Our Divisional band was up to high-water mark, and their rendering of the hymns and chants on Sundays made our services in the theatre extraordinarily hearty.
She had both a piano and a harmonium, and took great pleasure in playing some of the hymns in our Canadian hymn book.
We had special hymns and prayers neatly printed on cards, which the men were to retain as souvenirs.
When the room in time was quite full we began by singing a few hymns in German, after which the chaplain prayed for guidance and the sense of God's presence; and then a most interesting time followed.
There is no direct evidence of this being part of the worship of the tabernacle, but we know it to have been part of the Temple worship and as hymns are common in ancient rituals our statement is probably correct.
And yet it is easy to preach, for in prison most hearts are softened, and just now there are memories of bygone days that make one love the old hymns and listen with more than old interest to old truths.
He is but a big boy after all, and the hymns of boyhood are his favourites still.
Prayers and hymns followed free and fast, and many at the close, as they pressed forward to shake hands with me and thank me for coming, said it was one of the happiest Sundays of their life.
That night I got permission to have hymns sung in the lines, and you should have heard the Welsh hymns as they rose and fell in the night air.
So he went out to meet them, taking with him all his clergy in a great procession, chanting their hymns as they went.
Her voice was like a bird's, and she sang her hymns of praise and played so exquisitely, that it is said that even the angels came down to listen.
Hymns and thanksgiving testified the popular joy, and so sanguine were the soldiers of the speedy accomplishment of their wishes, that they carried with them only a month's provisions.
These hymns were generally composed in honour of the gods, and contained an account of their famous actions, their clemency and beneficence, and the gifts conferred by them on mankind.
At the sacrifices to the aërial divinities music was added, whilst dances were performed round the altar, and sacred hymns sung.
We have said, already, that Mr. Davies was one of the Welsh hymn-writers; eighty of his hymns are said to be among the best in the Welsh language.
Thus in the sixteenth century the hymns were revived which in the first century had consoled the pangs of the martyrs.
But since Maimie's coming, the piano had been in daily use, and even on the Sabbath days, though not without danger to the sensibilities of the neighbors, she had used it to accompany the hymns with which the day always closed.
So Hughie arranged it all, and for an hour the singing went on, the favorite hymns of each being sung in turn.
And she chose one of the new hymns which they had just learned in the singing school, and of which Hughie was very fond, the children's hymn, "Come to the Saviour.
The anthems and hymns were, of course, never used in public worship.
They learned to sing, not only the old psalm tunes but psalm tunes never heard in the congregation before, as also hymns and anthems.
Among them were "Hymns for Infant Minds" and "Original Poems.
Mr. Montgomery's style is generally too diffuse; but its smoothness and the evident sincerity of his emotions have made many of his hymns and minor poems very popular.
As soon as the dishes were washed the girls gathered in the front part of the shack, where there was an old piano, and sang hymns and camp songs.
The Indians never tired of singing, and the hymnsprepared for them in their own language were full of instruction.
At this they all assisted, chanting Iroquois hymns and other prayers, including the Creed and the Ten Commandments.
He would not be satisfied till they had called together his young friends to sing the Iroquois hymns they had been learning.
They sang sweet hymns of Jesus, and repeated many precious texts for Mr. Needham to take as their messages of love to the Indian children in his Sunday-school.
In the evening the old Scotch kirk was filled to the door, and after the singing of some sweet hymns and several heart-breathings of prayer, we spoke of the dealings of the Lord in this mission among the children of our million-peopled city.
In our Sunday-school we sing about the same hymns we used to sing when in the Refuge, and there is three of us 'Home' boys go to that Sunday-school.
At these gatherings, much to the gratification of the ladies, the little ones whose garments they were sewing, have sung for their pleasure children's sweet hymns of praise to Him by whose love they were being cared for.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hymns" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
