Justin Brock | Posts Tagged ‘ Old Hymns ’

Here’s another ruined hymn. Sir Isaac Watts – the hymn writer I most often harass – published this one in Hymns and Spiritual Songs, 1709. My brother is singing harmony with me in the video below. I happened to make this arrangement during a summer in Scandinavia. Not All the Blood of Beasts Not all [...]

We Rest On Thee Cyberhymnal needs to redo their site [and stop the midi files from playing automatically], but there’s some good info there: This hymn has a sad sto­ry as­so­ci­at­ed with it. In Jan­u­ary 1956, five mis­sion­ar­ies sang it be­fore en­ter­ing the Ecua­dor­i­an jun­gle to bring the Gos­pel to the Au­ca In­di­ans. Their names [...]