The CCEL Times 4.8 (August 3, 2009)

Submitted by bdv4 on Fri, 2009-07-24 08:05.

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The CCEL's sister site, Hymnary.org, is a database of hymnody designed to serve the needs of worship leaders, scholars, and anyone else looking for information about a hymn. If you ever find yourself paging through indexes of hymnals, this site can help.

This past month we added the Dictionary of North American Hymnology—intended to be a comprehensive index of all hymnals published in North American to 1978, though a few were omitted. So now you can get nearly complete publication information on hymns. Have you ever wondered how many hymnals have "Amazing Grace"? At least 1012, or more than 20% of all hymnals published in North America.

Harry Plantinga
Director of the CCEL

Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
English translation by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Away upon the journey of our life
I found myself within a forest dark,
For the straightforward pathway had been lost.
Ah me! how hard a thing it is to say
What was this forest savage, rough, and stern,
Which in the very thought renews the fear.
So bitter is it, death is little more;
But of the good to treat, which there I found,
Speak will I of the other things I saw there.

— the opening lines of Dante's Inferno

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Murray's Absolute Surrender

This will be a searching, challenging, and possibly life changing study of Andrew Murray's Absolute Surrender, allowing each member to explore and share thoughts and beliefs on the subject set before us, that is, entire sanctification for the purpose of union with the Divine. I am approaching this study from the viewpoint of traditional holiness teaching and members of all views, who wish to study this branch of mystical religion are welcome.

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Great Is Thy Faithfulness by Thomas O. Chisholm

"There is no circumstantial background for Great Is Thy Faithfulness," writes its author, Thomas O. Chisholm. He goes on to say that it was simply the result of his "morning by morning realization of God's personal faithfulness." Chisholm wrote the text in Vineland, New Jersey, in 1923, and sent it to his friend William M. Runyan, who composed the tune. Set to FAITHFULNESS, the text was published in Runyan's Songs of Salvation and Service (1923). "Great Is Thy Faithfulness" is a vibrant testimony to the faithfulness of God, a testimony Chisholm reaffirmed in 1941:

I must not fail to record here the unfailing faithfulness of a covenant-keeping God and that he has given me many wonderful displays of his providing care, for which I am filled with astonishing gratefulness.

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