"Amazing Grace" and "How Great Thou Art," for example

Usage examples of hymns.

The people hear the hymns without looking closely at the meaning of the words.

No high-priest who at the great hill festival praises the Gods in long hymns for their gifts can return thanks so earnestly with his lips as she with her dumb eyes.

When the light of the only One manifests itself, then I fervently render thanks to him in hymns, and the most luminous of his forms I name Ra.

Out of the windows which opened on the street, recitations, hymns, and lamentations sounded night and day.

Mernephtah, on which were inscribed beautiful hymns to the Nile, and lists of the sacrifices to be offered at the Nilefestivals.

On the eastern side of the camp stood a canopy, under which the standards were kept, and there numbers of priests were occupied in their office of blessing the warriors, offering sacrifices, and singing hymns and litanies.

The king was greeted as a god, when he returned to the camp, with shouts of triumph and hymns of praise.

The English version is noteworthy for its inclusion of the skilful renderings of the ancient hymns by J.

We know that the early Christians were accustomed to sing hymns, both in their homes and on the occasions of their meeting together.

There having sung a few hymns, he would announce to those who gathered around him his project of restoring the chapel.

The unfortunate and benighted Greek was chanting a disconnected and mad song, composed from snatches of hymns and sacred odes, all jarringly woven together.

Why had he wantoned on his glittering plumage amidst these harsh and ungenial strangers, dazzling the eyes with his gorgeous hues, charming the ear with his blithesome song--thus suddenly to be arrested--caged in darkness--a victim and a prey--his gay flights for ever over--his hymns of gladness for ever stilled!

Ere the words died away, the Nazarenes, moved by sudden indignation, caught up the echo, and, in the words of one of their favorite hymns, shouted aloud:- THE WARNING HYMN OF THE NAZARENES Around--about--for ever near thee, God--OUR GOD--shall mark and hear thee!

As the sun set and the fire flared upon the altar, the Magians began to chant one of those hymns that Zoroaster had received directly from Ahura Mazdah the Wise Lord.

In Bactra she had forced herself to learn a thousand hymns and rituals in order to convince Zoroaster that she was a follower of the Truth.