Awesome Greg...it sounds weird maybe, but I love to listen to most of these hymns. I think my dad will love to hear them as well :)This reminds me of what Tozer writes in his book "The Divine Conquest - Points to power of the Christian message" (FANTASTIC BOOK!):Fountain of Love! Thyself true God! Who through eternal daysFrom Father and from Son hast flowed In uncreated ways!I dread Thee, Unbegotten Love! True God! Sole Fount of Grace!And now before Thy blessed throne My sinful self abase.O Light! O love! O very God I dare no longer gazeUpon Thy wondrous attributes And their mysterious ways.These lines have everything to make a great hymn, sound theology, smooth structure, lyric beauty, high compression of profound ideas and a full charge of lofty religious feeling. Yet they are in complete neglect. I believe that a mighty resurgence of the Spirit's power among us will open again wells of hymnody long forgotten. For song can never bring the Holy Spirit, but the Holy Spirit does invariably bring song.Our God however hasn't changed! These songs shouldn't bring about a notion of sentimentality, but a desire for reality. Not a sadness about the terrible state of the Church today (Churchyard-Christianity), but a gladness about a God Who didn't change one single bit and still is willing to do His work through us.Tozer wrote about this:We need to seek deliverance from our vain and weakening wish to go back and recover the past. We should seek to be cleansed from the childish notion that to have lived in Abram's day, or in Paul's, would have been better than to live today. With God Abram's day and this day are the same.In Him Who is the same yesterday, now and forevermore...Paul
