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90 LUTHERAN THEOLOGICAL REVIEW IX And stanza eight proclaims: Your Baptism, Supper, and Your Word My comfort here below afford; Here lies my heart’s true treasure. Help that Your body and Your blood May be my soul’s consoling food In my last moments! Amen. One final area where the ELH shines is in its devotional aspects. The hymnal was clearly fashioned not only for congregational use in the Divine Service, but also for personal and family devotional use. For example, instead of leaving empty space on a page, the editors chose to fill that space with prayers and portions of the Holy Scriptures. Hymns that are favourites of young children as well as fondly remembered by adults, such as “Children of the Heavenly Father” and “God Loves Me Dearly”, have been included. A hymn that might be considered more appropriate in Sunday School, “Jesus Loves Me”, has with the composition of three new stanzas been given a churchly emphasis. For example, the final stanza says, Jesus loves me! He is near. He is with His Church so dear. And the Spirit He has sent By His Word and Sacrament. The section on Holy Baptism is void of the sweet sentiments occasionally expressed in the baptismal hymns of TLH and LW. What is offered instead is solid, thoughtful, catechetical hymnody, “to give every Christian enough to learn and to practise all his life in regard to Baptism” (Luther). This baptismal emphasis is present throughout the hymns of the ELH. For instance, Kingo’s Easter hymn, “Like the Golden Sun Ascending”, says in part, For Thy resurrection is Surety for my heav’nly bliss, And my baptism a reflection Of Thy death and resurrection. Another devotional strength of this hymnal is its powerful piety surrounding death and dying. Where TLH had 18 hymns in its section on death and burial, and LW has a mere 6, ELH has 19. In keeping with the theology of the cross, one of the characteristics of classic Lutheran hymnody was often a final stanza on death. Where this focus has been muted by LW, the ELH is not afraid to sing a godly approach to death, a helpful corrective in our society fixated in one way or another on dying. The absence of the LW Divine Service Two and the repeated use of the isometric chorale prevent a whole-hearted endorsement of ELH.
SAAR: EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN HYMNARY REVIEW 91 Nevertheless, it should be on every pastor’s shelf as a valuable resource to mine, and with judicious use could become a helpful asset for the church choir. For obvious jurisdictional reasons, we in Lutheran Church–Canada will not have the same voice in the production of the next Missouri Synod hymnal as we have had in the past. Could the example of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod and the ELH offer a model for us as we consider the future of hymnody in our congregations David P. Saar is Pastor of St. John’s Lutheran Church, Mount Forest, Ontario.
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