A Mirror to the Soul: 30 Contemporary hymns based on psalms by Timothy Dudley-Smith
This collection, from one of today's most acclaimed hymn writers, offers new words for 30 psalms, many set to well-known tunes. Psalms gave the Christian community its first hymns. Indeed, the Hebrew name for our Book of Psalms means `Songs of Praise'. In many Anglican churches today, the chanting of psalms is becoming a lost art. Metrical psalms are not, except in the rarest cases, actual translations of the original; but to congregations used to hymn singing they can offer something of the riches that singing (or saying) of the psalms provide. A glance at the themes represented will show the kind of variety that will often fit easily into a pattern of worship; or be of help in private devotion.