The next issue of that journal, commenting thereon, among other things stated: “The singing of the truth is a good way to get it into the heads and hearts of God’s people. In 1896 appeared a special issue of The Watchtower consisting entirely of Christian songs set to music. Recognizing the obligation of Christians to sing songs of praise to Jehovah, the publishing agency of Jehovah’s witnesses has from its earliest infancy been producing songbooks, beginning with the year 1879, the very year The Watchtower began to be published. THE singing of songs is an integral part of the worship of Jehovah God, and how glad we are that this is so! It is at once a duty and a pleasure. Some of the songs that remind me to exciting conventions I attended are: "Being Taught by Jehovah", "'Welcome One Another'!", "Welcome the Incoming King!", "What Sort of Persons Ought We to Be?" "Gaining Jehovah's Friendship", among others that are no longer in our current songbook.With 128 pages and many new lyrics and melodies That is why I feel sad when they change some of our more popular songs. You Jehovah", or "Keep Your Eyes on the Prize", at the conclusion of aĬonvention, with all the feelings this evokes. Under your belt cannot remember singing "Myriad of Brothers,", We Thank And as such connect with precious memories Others being revised, sometimes to the extant they are barely recognizable Ness to see many songs that were once popular fade from memory, or So while that may be understandableįrom that perspective, now after being associated with the organizationįor almost 50 years, there is for me, and no doubt others a feeling of sad. You maybe right with the suggestion many of them are being revised toįall in line with the revised 2013 NWT. As for the other songs and why they do not get more "air time", While never having made a statistical study of it, it is a question I have Thank you for this statistical review of our most sung and least sung songs. Their two-edged “sword”, the Word of God, 336 in the 1928 songbook (for music click the link above): 137 (Grant Us Boldness), 5 timesġ890, Poems and Hymns of (Millennial) Dawn: 151 poems and 333 hymns (without music sheet)ġ896, Hymns of the Morning (Zion’s Glad Songs of the Morning) (issued as w1896 2/1): 11 songs with music textġ900, Zion’s Glad Songs for All Christian Gatherings: 82 songs, completed the older songsġ906, Hymns of Millennial Dawn (Hymns of the Millennial Dawn-With Music) (© 1905) the 333 songs of 1890 with music sheetġ909, Hymns of the Millennial Dawn (pocket, without music)ġ926, Kingdom Hymns (Kingdom Hymns-With Music) (for children) (© 1925): 80 songs mit music sheet, especially for childrenġ928, Song Book (Songs of Praise to Jehovah) and Song Book (Songs of Praise to Jehovah) (pocket, without music): 337 songsġ944, Kingdom Service Song Book: 62 songsġ950, Songs to Jehovah’s Praise: 91 songsġ966, “Singing and Accompanying Yourselves With Music in Your Hearts”: 119 songsġ984, Sing Praises to Jehovah: 225 songs and 1992, Sing Praises to Jehovah-Large Print (lyrics only) (© 1991)Ģ009, Sing to Jehovah, Sing to Jehovah-Large Print and Sing to Jehovah-Lyrics Only, Large Print: 135 songsĢ013 and later:Sing to Jehovah-New Songs: 19 songs (so far)
138 (Jehovah Is Your Name), 8 times and No. 109 (Hail Jehovah’s Firstborn!), each 29 timesġ.: No. 75 (Our Reasons for Joy), each 30 timesĤ.: No. Now this statistic is updated until the meetings in the week of 22ⁿᵈ August 2016.ģ.: No.
138 (Jehovah Is Your Name), 7 times and No. 127 (A Place Bearing Your Name), each 7 times 126 (Our Labor of Love), each 6 timesħ.: No. 38 (Throw Your Burden on Jehovah) and No. Rank of the ten less-sung-songs (except new ones):ġ.: No. 95 (“Taste and See That Jehovah Is Good”), each 26 times 116 (The Light Gets Brighter), each 27 timesĨ.: No. 109 (Hail Jehovah’s Firstborn!), each 29 timesĦ.: No. 69 (Make Me Know Your Ways), 30 timesĤ.: No. A statistical information about our songbook (sn) (updated to the meetings in the week of 8ᵗʰ and inclusive meetings, conventions and the memorials and without songs before public talks):ģ.: No.
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