Comments on: Sacred Songs http://www.leanderharding.com/blog/2009/06/19/sacred-songs/ Tue, 22 Jun 2010 21:35:47 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: John Corn http://www.leanderharding.com/blog/2009/06/19/sacred-songs/comment-page-1/#comment-14795 John Corn Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:53:53 +0000 http://www.leanderharding.com/blog/2009/06/19/sacred-songs/#comment-14795 Leander, as I was meandering through the various blogs to catch up with GC I came across your name on t19- what a joy to read your testimony and express to you my great love and appreciation of these songs since coming to faith in the summer of 1998- they managed to help unravel my 12-year old skepticism as well. In His Peace, john Leander,
as I was meandering through the various blogs to catch up with GC I came across your name on t19- what a joy to read your testimony and express to you my great love and appreciation of these songs since coming to faith in the summer of 1998- they managed to help unravel my 12-year old skepticism as well.

In His Peace,
john

]]> By: Marie Blocher http://www.leanderharding.com/blog/2009/06/19/sacred-songs/comment-page-1/#comment-13300 Marie Blocher Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:22:48 +0000 http://www.leanderharding.com/blog/2009/06/19/sacred-songs/#comment-13300 This is the song you referred to: http://www.lyricstime.com/doc-watson-old-camp-meetin-time-lyrics.html This is the song you referred to:
http://www.lyricstime.com/doc-watson-old-camp-meetin-time-lyrics.html

]]> By: Bruce Robison http://www.leanderharding.com/blog/2009/06/19/sacred-songs/comment-page-1/#comment-13298 Bruce Robison Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:53:18 +0000 http://www.leanderharding.com/blog/2009/06/19/sacred-songs/#comment-13298 I enjoy listening to the clips you post on FB. It's not a tradition I've known much about, but I find much of it moving and inspiring. Thanks! I enjoy listening to the clips you post on FB. It’s not a tradition I’ve known much about, but I find much of it moving and inspiring. Thanks!

]]> By: Leander+ http://www.leanderharding.com/blog/2009/06/19/sacred-songs/comment-page-1/#comment-13119 Leander+ Sun, 21 Jun 2009 16:27:25 +0000 http://www.leanderharding.com/blog/2009/06/19/sacred-songs/#comment-13119 Old is a relative term. These praise songs of the mountain people are unknown to many. I would not be such a big fan of using them in church except on a special occasion or for a special service. I do agree that we are in danger of losing the great tradition of liturgical music and especially Anglican psalm settings. Old is a relative term. These praise songs of the mountain people are unknown to many. I would not be such a big fan of using them in church except on a special occasion or for a special service. I do agree that we are in danger of losing the great tradition of liturgical music and especially Anglican psalm settings.

]]> By: Maxine Schell http://www.leanderharding.com/blog/2009/06/19/sacred-songs/comment-page-1/#comment-13095 Maxine Schell Sun, 21 Jun 2009 04:05:01 +0000 http://www.leanderharding.com/blog/2009/06/19/sacred-songs/#comment-13095 I read your posting on "Apostacy". I read all your postings there, and also on Stand Firm" I read your posting on “Apostacy”. I read all your postings there, and also on Stand Firm”

]]> By: Lee Poteet http://www.leanderharding.com/blog/2009/06/19/sacred-songs/comment-page-1/#comment-13092 Lee Poteet Sun, 21 Jun 2009 03:31:14 +0000 http://www.leanderharding.com/blog/2009/06/19/sacred-songs/#comment-13092 But those are not really "old" songs. The old songs are the psalms and the canticles in the Old Testament that found their way into the office of Lauds. Newer are the canticles of the New Testament: the Benedictus, the Magnificat and the Nunc dimittis. When at sixteen I heard these sung to Anglican chant by all of the congregation of the tiny Episcopal Church of my home town I knew that I had found the real, the authentic "Old Time Religion." There are too few places now for that to happen to anyone, but we who as authentic, traditional prayer book Anglicans should be doing our very best to insure that the number of those places grow and grow so that others will know the moments when God is to be found in His temple and that temple becomes us. But those are not really “old” songs. The old songs are the psalms and the canticles in the Old Testament that found their way into the office of Lauds. Newer are the canticles of the New Testament: the Benedictus, the Magnificat and the Nunc dimittis. When at sixteen I heard these sung to Anglican chant by all of the congregation of the tiny Episcopal Church of my home town I knew that I had found the real, the authentic “Old Time Religion.”

There are too few places now for that to happen to anyone, but we who as authentic, traditional prayer book Anglicans should be doing our very best to insure that the number of those places grow and grow so that others will know the moments when God is to be found in His temple and that temple becomes us.

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