Show changing tat taste in hymns hymn one of our churches lo in new york cl city ty having taken a poll ot of the congregation gre cre gation in order to determine the ten favorite hymns announces that the fol following losing received the requisite number cumber of ballots nearer my god to thee abide with me jesus lover ot of my soul 1 I love to tell tel the story lead kindly light it rescue the perishing rock of aget ages onward christian soldiers what a friend we have in jesus four there others wre were tied for tenth place love divine all love excelling just as I 1 am faith of our fathers living still and in the cross of christ I 1 glory nothing could illustrate better the change that has come over our religious thinking in the list hit there Is not one hymn about heaven ten years ago no congregation would have hava bitted omitted jerusalem the golden or there Is a land of pure delight ind twenty five years ago half the list aou would id have been given to such hymns northwestern christian advocate |