Scudamore organs, or, Practical hints respecting organs for village churches and small chancels

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Page 55 - COME, Holy Ghost, eternal God, Proceeding from above, Both from the Father and the Son, The God of peace and love ; Visit our minds, into our hearts Thy heavenly grace inspire ; That truth and godliness we may Pursue with full desire. Thou art the very Comforter In grief and all distress ; The heavenly gift of God most high, No tongue can it...
Page 54 - O GOD, my heart is ready, my heart is ready ; I will sing, and give praise with the best member that I have. 2 Awake, thou. lute and harp ; I myself will awake right early.
Page 57 - Scudamore Organs, or Practical Hints respecting Organs for Village Churches and small Chancels, on improved principles. By the Rev. John Baron, MA, Rector of Upton Scudamore, Wilts. With Designs by George Edmund Street, FSA Second Edition, revised and enlarged. 8vo. 6a. The Bell; its Origin, History, and Uses. By Rev. A. Gatty. 3».
Page 49 - Psalm is so small and natural, that everybody is able to do it, and yet sufficient to raise and keep up the gladness of our hearts. You are therefore to consider this chanting of a Psalm, as a necessary beginning of your devotions, as something that is to awaken all that is good and holy within you, that is to call your spirits to their proper duty, to set you in your best posture towards heaven, and tune all the powers of your soul to worship and adoration. For there is nothing that...
Page 56 - Crosse he bore, The deare remembrance of his dying Lord, For whose sweete sake that glorious badge he wore, And dead, as living, ever him ador'd : Upon his shield the like was also scor'd, For soveraine hope which in his helpe he had.
Page 49 - Whilst you only read it, you only like it, and that is all ; but as soon as you sing it, then you enjoy it, you feel the delight of it, it has got hold of you, your passions keep pace with it, and you feel the same spirit within you, that seems to be in the words.
Page 49 - ... of heart, nothing that so purifies the soul from poor and little passions, nothing that so opens heaven, or carries your heart so near it, as these songs of praise. They create a sense and delight in God, they awaken holy desires, they teach you how to ask, and they prevail with God to give. They kindle an holy flame, they turn your heart into an altar, your prayers into incense, and carry them as a sweetsmelling savour to the throne of Grace. The difference between singing and reading...
Page 56 - For sovereign hope, which in his help he had : Right faithful true he was in deed and word ; But of his cheer did seem too solemn sad : Yet nothing did he dread, but ever was ydrad.
Page 52 - My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed ;' it will be very easy and natural to add, as he did, ' I will sing and 'give praise,
Page 49 - ... of a Psalm, as devout supplication is the proper use of a form of Prayer. And a Psalm only read, is very much like a Prayer that is only looked over. Now the method of chanting a Psalm, such as is used in the Colleges in the Universities, and in some Churches, is such as all Persons are capable of. The change of the voice in thus chanting of a Psalm is so small and natural, that everybody is able to do it, and yet sufficient to raise and keep up the gladness of our hearts. You are therefore to...

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