The Singing Church: The Hymns It Wrote and Sang

by Edmund S. Lorenz

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.