TATARAIMAKA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 139, 6 July 1901, Page 2

TATARAIMAKA.

(FKOM OUR OWN' COItRKSP inpent). i'IiLUE was a good ud er.co on Monday to hafthe Rev. J. II Whi'.»'sl ciure on the-"500 Be<t Hvm-i for Public Wotsh'p." Mr Wliite 'old how the Methodist 'limes, publ sli tl i-i Lordon, invited its ie-dora to send in lists of 500 hymns which weie thai- favourite s-lection froin~all s-rvire*. About 500 respond d and rvev 3.000 hymos in all were suggested. It ws>s a heavy task to record the voling, and reach the result. The two highest on the list had 446 and th=» two next had 445. ' Ncedle.-s to fay thi first 25 included sui'h hyins as " Rock of Age»," '■ Jbfus Lover of my Soul," " All Hail the Power," " Abide with Me," " When I Survey tho Wonderous Cro s," " Jußt as I Am," " Hail Their O.ies Despised Jesus," " Sun of my Soul," <« Nearer my God to Thte." The lecturer expessed his astonishment to find "Piaise Ye the Lord, 't : s pood to Raise," "TakemyLife andlet i" Be,"and a few o her univei s illy be'oved hymns not in. " Hyrars Auc ; entai.d Modern." In the 500 favourites, 416 wpre in the presjLt hymn hook of the Wrsleyan Church, 199 of thorn were hymns written by Ji.hn Wes'ey or his brother Charles, atid 145werj in" Hjinns Ancient and Modern," Ah churchts sang Uih snue hymns to a very large extent, ■it d this was one of the most beautiful features of Christian psalmody. Newman's "Lead Kind'y Light," Miss Havergale, "Tike my Life and let i be " and Bonar's " I Le<rd "the Voice of Jesus say," and " I lsy my sins tin Jesiss," etc,, were amongst the 'B4 hyoins which the popular vo'e would include in a new hymn book for the Methodist Churches. Some humours of the voting were men'imed and several favourite hymns to well-known tunes were rendered on tho organ) by Mr. Harold White. The evening's rnu-ic was a greit treat, and the subject was most interestingly aud instructive y dealt with. M'urh pleasute wj.s yielded by the handing iu of lists of the four favourite hym> s of several present, and the more inasmuch as the looal taste coincided' " ib the pieforetca of the recei't plebiscite so far as to mention nearly a dozen hymns of tha 25 which stood first in ■ha voting. The collection was devoted to the Building Fund.