Through The Hymnbook

Guest (Male): The happy chimes are playing All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name. Welcome to the organ loft, and we would like to invite you to come in and enjoy some beautiful music. If you know the songs as the late Reverend Bert Jones is playing, you sing right along with him.

Reverend Bert Jones: I was just playing for you the great hymn All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name. This time, I was playing it from the book Worship His Majesty, a great big thick book containing more than 700 selections, published by the Gaither Music Company in the year 1987.

All hail the power of Jesus' name, let angels prostrate fall. It's song number two in the hymnal Worship His Majesty. Song number one in the hymnbook Worship His Majesty is the great song Majesty. Majesty, worship his majesty. Written by the Reverend Jack Hayford, both words and music and copyrighted in the year 1981.

Unto Jesus be all glory, power, and praise. Majesty, kingdom, authority flow from his throne unto his own. His anthem raise. Majesty, majesty, magnify, come glorify Christ Jesus the King. Majesty, worship his majesty, Jesus who died, now glorified, King of all kings. I'm going to pull out all the stops, folks, and sing and play Majesty.

Brethren, we have met to worship, to adore the Lord our God. Will you pray with expectation as we preach the living word? All is vain unless the spirit of the holy one comes down. Brethren pray, and God's great blessing will be showered all around.

I'm playing from the hymnbook Worship His Majesty, a book containing more than 700 selections. It's a great big thick book, and it was copyrighted in the year 1987 by Gaither Music Company and edited by the Gaithers along with the senior editor Fred Bock.

Here's the beautiful old hymn written by John Newton, who wrote Amazing Grace: How Sweet the Name of Jesus Sounds in a Believer's Ear. It soothes his sorrows, heals his wounds, and drives away his fear.

It is very interesting in this book to notice that the responsive readings are sprinkled throughout the book, throughout the pages of the songs, instead of all being clustered at the back of the book as is the custom in most gospel songbooks.

Here they are all through the book. Sometimes they are not just traditional responsive readings, but a poem or sometimes it suggests reading them alternately, with one side of the church reading a portion and then the other side. It is very interesting. Here's a John Peterson song from the year 1978. Everybody sing praise to the Lord, everybody sing praise to the Lord.

This book comes as the gift of Dorothy and John Williams of Hookstown, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Williams has written saying that Through the Hymnbook was such a blessing to her several years ago when there was serious illness in the family and she had to drive many, many miles every Sunday to get to the bedside of her father.

As she drove those miles, both going and coming, she would hear Through the Hymnbook on one of the early morning stations. Coming home at night, she would hear it on one of the nighttime stations. It was a great blessing to her.

We appreciate this book from the Williams. Here we come to Count Your Many Blessings. Name them one by one, and it will surprise you what the Lord has done. Back to the little xylophone again.

Here in the organ, there is no reiterater that automatically does that. That meant old Uncle Bert at the organ console had to do all those xylophone notes, but it gave a nice imitation and sort of fit in with the spirit of Count Your Blessings.

Rejoice Ye Pure in Heart. Under each title, there is a scripture verse in this book. Rejoice in the Lord always, again I say rejoice. That comes from Philippians 4:4, and the theme of the Apostle Paul in writing the Philippian letter was rejoice.

A lovely song written by the Gaithers is next, Jesus, We Just Want to Thank You. If you're following in the book from which I am playing, this is number 86 in the book Worship His Majesty.

It is rather interesting to see this, which I had always thought of as a little gospel chorus, written in the form of a hymn. Here it is beautifully written in the book in the style of a hymn. Now it says, Jesus, we just want to praise you.

Guest (Male): We are just pausing to remind you that you are enjoying Through the Hymnbook. We never know what's going to happen in Through the Hymnbook. Sometimes Reverend Jones goes through a new book, sometimes it's been an old book, or sometimes it's an antique book that might go back to 1895.

We would appreciate it if you would take time to write and let us know that Through the Hymnbook is being a blessing to you. You don't hear a lot of organ music today. In Through the Hymnbook, you've probably realized sometimes you hear chimes, sometimes you hear organ, and sometimes the canary whistles.

Our canary is Singspiration the Canary. Just write Through the Hymnbook. The address is Post Office Box 575, Erie, Pennsylvania, and the zip code 16512. Say Through the Hymnbook has been such a blessing to me. We hope that as Bert plays, you enjoy just singing right along with him.

Reverend Bert Jones: George Beverly Shea has written this song, which was copyrighted in 1957. There's the wonder of sunset at evening, the wonder of sunrise I see, but the wonder of wonders that thrills my soul is the wonder that God loves me. Oh, the wonder of it all.

Love Divine, All Loves Excelling, Joy of Heaven to Earth Come Down. A great old hymn. Thank you, Singspiration, for finally joining in. You're almost a half hour too late, but not too late to include the beautiful benediction that is found here in the book Worship His Majesty.

The good Lord bless and keep thee. The Lord make his face to shine upon thee. With this, I must close the hymnbook for this time, but I hope you've enjoyed it. I hope it's been a blessing to you. Until next time, you keep singing. Bye.