The earliest hymn book published was the " Sacred Melodist " which was published by Benjamin Wilson in Geneva, Illinois in 1860.

The next was the hymn book published for the use of Baptised Believers in the Kingdom of God ( an early name for Christadelphians ) by George Dowie in Edinburgh in 1864.

Apām Napāt is sometimes, for example in Rigveda book 2 hymn 35 verse 3, described as a fire-god who originates in water ( see: Agni ).

While Spurgeon was still preaching at New Park Street, a hymn book called " The Rivulet " was published.

The New York Times review of the novel named Rand " a writer of great power " who writes " brilliantly, beautifully and bitterly ," and it stated that she had " written a hymn in praise of the individual ... you will not be able to read this masterful book without thinking through some of the basic concepts of our time.

The Church of Scotland has no compulsory prayer book although it does have a hymn book ( the 4th edition was published in 2005 ) and its Book of Common Order contains recommendations for public worship which are usually followed fairly closely in the case of sacraments and ordinances.

This hymn is also famous because it was the last hymn sung by the five missionaries involved in Operation Auca before their deaths and a line from the hymn's final verse provided the title for Elisabeth Elliot's book about that incident, Through Gates of Splendor.

Each side had its own college, its own newspaper and its own hymn book ”

The petitions at the end of the hymn ( beginning Salvum fac populum tuum ) are a selection of verses from the book of Psalms, appended subsequently to the original hymn.

Written by 30-year music-industry veteran, Isaias Gamboa, the book is the product of three years of exhaustive research and demonstrates in extraordinary detail that We Shall Overcome was in fact derived from a popular copyrighted Baptist hymn entitled, " If My Jesus Wills "-written in 1942 by an African American Baptist choir director named Louise Shropshire.

The book also reveals that Shropshire's song was COPYRIGHTED in 1954-leaving no doubt that her sacred hymn was the original inspiration for We Shall Overcome-not Charles Albert Tindley's " I'll Overcome " as has been alleged for over 52 years.

A Selection of Hymns for Public Worship is a hymn book compiled by William Gadsby, a minister of the Gospel Standard Strict Baptists in England.

The hymn book is used by the Gospel Standard Strict Baptists in England and the United States and a few Old School or Primitive Baptist churches in the United States.

Many of the Strict Baptists use the Companion Tune Book, a musical score of 1011 hymn tunes designed as a companion to Gadsby ’ s hymn book.

The hymn book was never widely used in churches outside the UK, but there is some renewed interest in it among Reformed Baptists as devotional poetry.

The OGBB use their own hymn book, of which most members maintain a personal copy.

In 1569, shortly after the Reformation, Denmark's first hymn book, Thomesens Salmebog, was published with music for the individual hymns.

During this time, both Delaporte and his wife translated many religious texts including the New Testament, stories from the Old Testament, a catechism, a hymn book, a history of the Christian Church and a book designed for use in the school.

This collection began the practice of combining together to sing tunes from the book laid the foundation for Cymanfa Ganu, hymn singing festivals.

In the Linga Purana the same hymn is expanded in the shape of stories, meant to establish the glory of the great Stambha and the supreme nature of Mahâdeva ( the Great God, Shiva ).

Temple hymn sources identify her as the ' true and great lady of heaven ' and kings of Sumer were ' nourished by Ninhursag's milk '.

Prior to the meeting of Moody and Sankey in 1870, there was an American rural / frontier history of revival and camp meeting songs, but the gospel hymn was of a different character, and it served the needs of mass revivals in the great cities.

* " All creatures great and small ", a line from the hymn " All Things Bright and Beautiful "

It influenced much of the poetry of the age, among others, that of the great hymn writer Hans Adolph Brorson.

Embedded in the Acts of Thomas at different places according to differing manuscript traditions is a Syriac hymn, The Hymn of the Pearl, ( or Hymn of the Soul ), a poem that gained a great deal of popularity in mainstream Christian circles.

It is a hymn of praise to God for his great salvation.

Her sympathies were aroused to help the lowly and neglected, and the cry of her heart went forth in this hymn, which has become a battle-cry for the great army of Christian workers throughout the world.

If a dervish should become too enraptured, another Sufi, who is in charge of the orderly performance, will gently touch his frock in order to curb his movement, The dance of the dervishes is one of the most impressive features of the mystical life in Islam, and the music accompanying it is of exquisite beauty, beginning with the great hymn in honor of the Prophet ( na't-i sharif, written by Jalaluddin himself ) and ending with short, enthusiastic songs, some things sung in Turkish.

He wrote that the shrine would be a " monument of love and gratitude, a great hymn in stone as perfect as the art of man can make it and as holy as the intentions of its builders could wish it to be.

Known as the fourth great Danish hymn writer ( after Kingo, Brorson and Grundtvig ), Ingemann is considered less rooted in Biblical dogma and more borne up by a general spiritual and religious interest.

Davis ' vision for the SV follows: " The Sons of Veterans is destined to become the great military organization of the country, that glory of its supremacy, that healing of the sense when its National hymn are sung that none other not thus reared can know or feel.

At the birth of Apollo on Delos according to the Homeric hymn, the goddesses who bear witness to the rightness of the birth are the great goddesses of the old order: Dione, Rhea, Ichnaea and Themis and the sea-goddess " loud-moaning " Amphitrite.

Vinayagar Agaval is a hymn in praise of the Lord Ganesha, by the great Chola era Tamil poetess Avaiyar.

Jacob was the teacher and spiritual director of Saint Ephrem the Syrian, a great ascetic, teacher and hymn writer who combatted Arianism.

His grandson is the Anglican priest and hymn writer Canon Michael Saward and his great grandchildren include F1 journalist Joe Saward and rape campaigner Jill Saward

This psalm is a hymn that opens with a call to praise God because of God's great deeds in nature and his gracious historical actions in the history of Israel.

Her recordings include music for organ and orchestra, brass and organ, cello and organ, most of the great organ masterpieces, original compositions and hymn arrangements.

He was in great demand for his hymn festivals, which are his legacy as a church musician.

Hopiks writes: there is a passage like the great Ka hymn of the Rig Veda, ' whom as god shall one worship?

The hymn is of great antiquity, and perhaps much older than the event assigned by the Greek Menology as connected to its origin.

Among the Sephardic congregations, however, the hymn is universally chanted to an ancient Moorish melody of great interest, which is known to be much older than the text of " Lekhah Dodi " itself.

The great applause and the spontaneous standing ovation the band earned when finishing the hymn, are still pictured clearly in every person's mind that was present that day.