From Christianity Today Online comes an article about ‘The Hymns That Keep On Going’ accompanied by the chart below listing twenty-seven hymns that have remained constant inclusions in various hymnals and their subsequent editions over scores of years.
Interesting to me is the absence of ‘Amazing Grace’, and, to a lesser extent ‘And Can It Be.’
Of the hymnal I grew up with the last three hymns listed, ‘Saviour, Like A Shepherd Lead Us’, ‘The Day Of Resurrection’, and ‘There’s A Wideness To God’s Mercy’ were not inlcuded.
Clicking on the image opens a pdf of the chart at CT Online.
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