"Unclassic" Quotes from Famous Books
... this unclassic hymnody of long ago, but its history should disarm criticism. To wanderers its quaint music and "pedestrian" verse were threshold call and door-way welcome into the church of the living God. Even in the flaming days of the Second Advent following, in 1842-3, they awoke in many hardened ... — The Story of the Hymns and Tunes • Theron Brown and Hezekiah Butterworth |