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.<l7B, MKRKTRIOIOU3, AND -OKLY BEMTIMBNTAL." •e Rev. W. Manning, at a meatj of the Churchmen's Union, in •jondon, recently, said the hymns aged n the i ervice of the Charch of England, to far from being what thoy ought to be, were very often the embodiment of neurotic, sickly sentimentality and melancholic menastical doctrine.
1 he " Hymn a Anci«afcftnd Modem" were as bad nffoad«r» as any in tbit! wspect, although they had largely,! through the midiam of the Oxford movement, gained aome considerable amount of prutige. For example, No. 97 of that collection one wa« dirtoted to observe the moral qualities of the trte upon which the Saviour died. After remarking -hat it alone was " counted worthy," the by nm the cross as being u>ad» uf " sweetest wood and sweetest irtw."
Another hymn directed the Christian the powers of evil by the powers of the oiosa snd the virtue of the Lanten fust. In hymn 223 the angeiawoo invoked by Protestants, who, he thought objected to the invocation of saints.
Other hymns inculcated noa-Protest-ant doctrioes, and some directly taught the old bio k! theology, as, for instance, one praising the " fountain filled witb blood, drawn from Emmanuel's veins"; another where the blood of Christ wes Mentioned is "falling upon us diop by drep." He was bound to say that the rea•on many intelligent Christian men did not attend ehuroh so often was that they objected, and rightly too, to the sevuous, meretricious tone and sickly sentimentality! a large proportion of the hymns.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 74, 16 April 1901, Page 4
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