Présentation de l'éditeur
Hebrew lyrics into English verse for the uses of common worship. Not without a sense of presumption this is here attempted yet again: but 3esterday is always calling tomorrow and the undiminishable impulse of those ancient chords must plead pardon for these echoes. Would that these were in far better liking! Of the history of the main English Psalters, down from John Daye, in 1562, and of the numerous and diverse authors of single numbers, Julian s Dictionary of Hymnology, ample and exact, is the best compendium. For contrast of his theory, the long preface of Isaac Watts to his Psalms (1719) is worth observing. But the literature of the subjects is too vast for a mere preface. One may well assume that the Psalms as we have them preserve but a selection from a far larger lyrical total: but, with whatever variety of inspirational value, these that remain utter the deepest religious feeling of I srael. Their theme is the yearning of the innermost soul toward the Author of Life. With their universal element of awe and of hope, the genius and grandeur of the greater Psalms furnish an immortal type and pattern for all after hymnody. They lead the choir. But from the spirit of a lesser few we thankfully escape Christian lips cannot appropriate phrases, too frequent, whose barbaric temper is utterly alien from that New Covenant which forbids every merely tribal conception of God and all the fallacies of revengeful hate. It is in the terrific 109th that invective goes to the limit! However, honest entirety must unflinchingly incorporate even these sombre dissonances, which also are profoundly instructive and deterrent.
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