Ebook Short Stories of the Hymns

Our Hymns — where did they come from? As you take your seat in your pew on the Sunday morning, and open your hymn book to find the hymn which the minister has just announced, does it ever occur to you to inquire, as you look at the\ hymn, Who wrote this hymn? Why? And under what Circumstances? Your hymn book may perhaps Of itself tell you the name of the author and the date of its composition — but that is very little information. Let us say, for example, that the hymn which the minister has announced is.