Sentence examples for old hymns from inspiring English sources
Beth Eisenberg's piano score, played by Elena Ruehr, suggested the sturdiness of old hymns.
"To do ministry in these times, you just can't sing the old hymns like you used to".
But the ghosts of those old hymns sing through us still, though the bill of our gratitude must now be expressed in things other than wheaten sheaves.
Letters, journals, plays, poems and old hymns (whose performance history give the play its title) are all brought into the conversation, beckoning and imperfect signifiers of what once was.
In a sweetly resonant, slightly husky baritone, he sang old hymns, ballads and country blues he had learned growing up in the northwestern corner of North Carolina, which has produced fiddlers, banjo pickers and folk singers for generations.
"Work for the night is coming" goes an old hymn.
"I preached this morning — when the storm passes," he said, a reference to an old hymn.
Therein lies the truth of that old hymn... "How Firm a Foundation".
WHAT once was lost now is found, in the consoling words of the old hymn.
One morning a 100-year-old, profoundly deaf woman turned to me at the completion of an old hymn and said simply: 'That was beautiful.
