Many parishes have made the huge mistake of carpeting their church space because someone on someone on some know-nothing committee thought that the carpet made the place feel warmer and friendly — like a living room — and perhaps too, someone found the echoes of children crying or hymnbooks dropping to be annoying. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Cook's group of more than a dozen interested singers sat facing Cook as the song leader, holding wide-page hymnbooks filled with notes in the shapes of open and solid squares, diamonds, triangles and ovals. ❋ The Huffington Post News Team (2010)
It means, in effect, not having to replace all the music in the loft and buy new hymnbooks with the new texts. ❋ Unknown (2009)
When pianos and organs became common in churches, a capella singing began to disappear, along with the complicated harmonies in the old hymnbooks. ❋ The Huffington Post News Team (2010)
One thing speakers of English can be thankful for is that most of their hymnbooks do not contain any words to use to the tune of Jingle Bells ... or the music. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The songs may have archaic, cryptic names such as "Old Hundred," better known in many hymnbooks as the doxology; "Amazing Grace" appears in shape-note books as "New Britain." ❋ The Huffington Post News Team (2010)
Though abstract theology, wooden benches, and dusty hymnbooks appear to be a thing of the past, many Americans today are still searching for something to shake them out of the ruts and mediocrity of so much of their daily existence. ❋ Dr. Tim Clinton (2010)
When Pastor Doe announced Blessed Assurance, everyone opened their hymnbooks except me, Vicky, and Eunice. ❋ Helene Cooper (2009)
Here endeth the lesson if you would all rise and turn your hymnbooks to page 666. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Two much greater composers also turned to this last song: Lassus drew on it in his four-part lied Die Gnad kombt oben her, and Schein published in his Cantional of 1627 a contrafactum, Auf meinen lieben Gott, which later found its way into Protestant hymnbooks, leading in turn to countless arrangements over many years. ❋ Lu (2009)
One of my favorite things to do is read thru hymnbooks. ❋ Happy (2008)
I should also note (at the risk of shocking some people and risking my curmudgeonly veneer) that we used our new Singing the Living Tradition hymnbooks for the second time and for the first time with me in the pulpit (Larry Lamond preached last week)! ❋ Adam Tierney-Eliot (2006)
Preacher Milton was in dire need of extra hymnbooks, the pack rats having chewed up most of the available supply. ❋ Larry Mcmurtry (2006)
