“So will we sing and praise thy power”
—(Psa. 21:13).
“Lend a voice to swell the chorus,
Chant the songs that time endears;
They were sung by those before us,
They will chime along the years.”
—Arthur Guiterman in “The Classmate.”
“We have no surer link with our fathers of generations past, and with our fellow-Christians of to-day, than is provided by the psalms and hymns and spiritual songs which are our spiritual heritage.” —Preface to The Hymnary of the United Church of Canada.
“The echoes of your music die;
Some say, ‘The song is ended’—but