Cottage Windows

Several friends have complained that there are too few sacrament hymns in the LDS hymnbook, so we end up singing the same three or four over and over again. If you’re the one who chooses the hymns in your ward, maybe you’d like a few suggestions:

178 – O Lord of Hosts

179 – Again, Our Dear Redeeming Lord

189 – O Thou before the World Began 

I have no memory of any of these being sung in any meeting I’ve ever attended. I have no idea why we shun them; we just do. The rest are fairly well-known hymns, and entirely appropriate for the sacrament service. They just don’t happen to sit in the sacrament section of our hymnbook:

100 – Nearer My God to Thee

108 – The Lord is My Shepherd

111 – Rock of Ages

117 – Come unto Jesus

134 – I Believe in Christ

136 – I Know that My Redeemer Lives

146 – Gently Raise the Sacred Strain

308 – Love One Another