Seventy Enduring Hymns

Most of the 70 hymns in this collection can be found in Hymns Ancient and Modern Revised (AMR), published in 1950. This was a most worthy revised compilation of longstanding hymns, psalm adaptations, and translations, dating back originally to 1861; to which the English speaking, and singing, Church has been much indebted. My selection does not include any Christmas carols, unless you count ‘O come, O come, Emmanuel’, but, strictly speaking, that’s an Advent hymn. The four hymns not found in AMR are ‘Jesus, good above all other’ (there’s a shorter version in AMR); ‘Amazing grace, how sweet the sound’; ‘In heavenly love abiding’; and ‘The Lord’s my Shepherd, I’ll not want’. Whilst all the words of all the other hymns can be found in the words only edition of AMR, a few of the tunes I have specified for them are not the ones printed in the well indexed and informative music edition.