101 Hymns

It was September 1947, almost two years after the end of the war.  The days were still warm but one could smell autumn in the air.  During one of these warm days our small family, my husband and two-year-old daughter Natalia, woke up early in the morning to get ready to leave our transition camp in Bremenhaven, Germany to sail to Canada. Awaiting us at the pier was a ship by the name of  ‘General Stuart Hainzelman’. It was an old vessel but…

Hymn Stories: Angels from the Realms of Glory Adapted from 101 Hymn Stories – Kenneth W. Osbeck Author: James Montgomery 1771-1854  Composer: Henry Smart 1813-1879  Angels from the realms of glory  Wing your flight o’er all the earth;  Ye who sang creation’s story  Now proclaim Messiah’s birth:  Come and worship, come and worship,  Worship Christ, the newborn king.  James Montgomery’s parents were Moravian missionaries to the  West Indies. While attending a Moravian seminary in England,  young James received word of…

Adapted from 101 Hymn Stories – Kenneth W. Osbeck Author: C. Austin Miles 1868-1946 Composer: C. Austin Miles And he walks with me and he talks with me, And he tells me I am his own And the joy we share as we tarry there None other has ever known. Next to “The Old Rugged Cross”, this is one of the most popular hymns ever written. It is one of our favourites, and a favourite of our friends at Centennial…