Walter Chalmers Smith ( 5 December 1824-19 September 1908 ), was a hymnist, poet and minister of the Free Church of Scotland and is chiefly remembered for his hymn " Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise ".

This had the effect of making the hymn refer directly to the incarnate Word: Holy God, Holy and Strong, Holy and Immortal, Christ, King, who was crucified for us, have mercy on us.

The hymn continues to praise Barbelo as emanating from the superior realm and for the sake of the inferior realm in which we live, Barbelo resides in between our realm and the Invisible Parent.

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.

The Prologue is a hymn identifying Jesus as the Logos and as God.

Although the audience did indeed demand an encore, it was not for Va, pensiero but rather for the hymn Immenso Jehova, sung by the Hebrew slaves to thank God for saving His people.

One definition of a hymn is "... a lyric poem, reverently and devotionally conceived, which is designed to be sung and which expresses the worshipper's attitude toward God or God's purposes in human life.

" (" A hymn is the praise of God with song ; a song is the exultation of the mind dwelling on eternal things, bursting forth in the voice.

Some modern churches include within hymnody the traditional hymn ( usually describing God ), contemporary worship music ( often directed to God ) and gospel music ( expressions of one's personal experience of God ).

* Constantine P. Cavafy's poem The God Abandons Antony, a hymn to human's dignity, depicts the imaginary last moments of Mark Antony while he sees his fortunes turning around.

The opening hymn of the holy Sri Guru Granth Sahib expounds the nature and attributes of God:

Since 1997, the South African national anthem has been a hybrid song combining new English lyrics with extracts of the hymn Nkosi Sikelel ' iAfrika ( God Bless Africa ) and the former anthem Die Stem van Suid-Afrika ( The Call of South Africa ).

They include Bogurodzica ( Mother of God ), a hymn in praise of the Virgin Mary written down in the 15th century though popular at least a century earlier.

As a hymn tune it has the title Thaxted, after the town in Essex where Holst lived for many years, and it has also been used for other hymns, such as " O God beyond all praising ".

" This is shown in the Jewish liturgy, such as in the Adon Olam hymn, which includes a " confident affirmation " that " He is my God, my living God ... Who hears and answers.

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 ).

The modern hymn writers he was at pains to shield from criticism some 30 years ago are now being questioned by Norman for becoming part of a multi-national Praise and Worship industry, producing manufactured rather than genuine praise .... Norman asks why a song written as an act of worship should remain the lucrative copyright property of the composer and not the property of the one to whom it is being offered — God: ' God doesn't charge us a fee to worship Him.

Lutheran Christians consider it a principal feast of Christ, and the Lutheran Confessor, Philip Melanchthon, wrote a hymn for the day that is still sung in Lutheran Churches: " Lord God to Thee We Give.

* 1523-Martin Luther writes a missionary hymn based on Psalm 67, May God Bestow on Us His Grace.

It was essentially a condensed church service on the air, with hymn singing featured along with Armstrong's message, and was the launching point for what would become the Radio Church of God.

" They went on to say, " there is no doubt that a deterioration in taste follows the use of this type of hymn and tune ; it fosters an attachment to the trivial and sensational which dulls and often destroys sense of the dignity and beauty which best befit the song that is used in the service of God.

::: A hymn becomes you, O God, in Zion,

A doxology ( from the Greek δόξα " glory " +-λογία, " saying ") is a short hymn of praises to God in various Christian worship services, often added to the end of canticles, psalms, and hymns.

These were extensions of the hymn, which previous generations of poets had dedicated only to gods and heroes:

It is significant that in the only older passage of the Rig veda in which it occurs, Prajapati is an epithet of the solar deity Savitr, who in the same hymn is said to rule over what moves and stands.

However, it is only in the mid 6th century that the earliest literary evidence of a cosmological interpretation of a domed church building exists, in the form of a hymn composed for the cathedral church of Edessa.

It is significant for being an innovative departure from the early English hymn style of only using paraphrased biblical texts, although the first two lines of the second verse do paraphrase St Paul at Galatians 6: 14.

In the wake of the failure of Fallen Fairies and his unhappy experience with it, German effectively ended his career as a composer of new works, only returning to composition on a few rare occasions, including a march and hymn for the coronation of King George V in 1911, his Theme and Six Diversions in 1919, and his final major work, the Othello-inspired tone poem The Willow Song in 1922.

When Lukashenko issued his decree selecting a new national anthem, only slight changes were made to the Soviet-era hymn.

The work not only presents intimate, prayerful moments within its monumental scale, but it also incorporates secular music in this decidedly religious performance and its individual movements present an array of musical forms-sonata, motet, hymn, and psalm-without losing focus.

Of the works attributed to him only about fifty survive, among which are two complete masses, three sets of connected mass sections, fourteen individual mass sections, twelve complete isorhythmic motets ( including the famous one which combines the hymn Veni creator spiritus and the sequence Veni sancte spiritus, and the less well-known Albanus roseo rutilat mentioned above ), as well as twenty-seven separate settings of various liturgical texts, including three Magnificats and seven settings of Marian antiphons, such as Alma redemptoris Mater and Salve Regina, Mater misericordiae.

After a short recitative, the soprano sings the only chorale stanza of the work, with an obbligato viola ( violoncello piccolo in the Leipzig version ) in lively figuration, on a rather unusual melody by Caspar von Stieler, whereas Bach later based his chorale cantata on this hymn on the melody by Jacob Regnart.

Some scholars believe the hymn antedates the Acts, as it only appears in one Syriac manuscript and one Greek manuscript of the Acts of Thomas.

In fact, in 1903 Crosby claimed that " Spring Hymn " was the only hymn she wrote both the words and music.

Guthrie's song, however, had a different melodic structure from the hymn or the similar Carter family melodies, and he used only the first half of those melodies in his song.

These antiphons form the basis not only of the advent procession, but also of the popular advent hymn, " O come, O come, Emmanuel ".

The main " sky-theme " is the only theme built upon a quotation, the hymn tune " Bethany " (" Nearer My God to Thee ," the same hymn tune used as the basis for the Finale of his Fourth Symphony.

The song may be used as a hymn and can be sung using only the chorus, alone or in medley.

) the use of the hymn at the Mass of Christmas Day and to Pope Symmachus ( 498 – 514 ) its use on Sundays and the feasts of martyrs, but only by bishops ; the right to use it was later extended to priests, at first only at Easter and on the day of their ordination, but by the end of the 11th century priests, as well as bishops, used it in the Mass on Sundays and feasts outside of Lent and Pre-Lent.

" All Things Dull and Ugly " was also the title of an unrelated track on Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album ( released only a few months later ), which is a parody of the popular hymn " All Things Bright and Beautiful ".

Traditionally, a shepherd, Sauveur Costa, is credited with converting the hymn not only to a Corsican anthem, but to a rallying symbol for Corsican independence.

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He tells them to return home as an act of duty, which he calls-remembering his own defiant choice to be an outlaw-' Your hazard, your act of defiance and hymn of hate, hatred of hatred, assertion of human values ' and ( in the poem's final words ') ' your only chance '.

Mary M. Macdonald ( 1789 – 1872 ), who lived in the nearby crofting community of Ardtun and who spoke only Gaelic, wrote her hymn " Leanabh an Aigh " to a traditional melody.

The only explicit reference to a celebration of Sol in late December is made by Julian the Apostate in his hymn to King Helios written immediately afterwards in early AD 363.