What's your favorite hymn?

I would have to second Christ4Kildare's favorite and also agree on the favorite line from the song. I would say my favorite arangement is the one on the Promise Keepers: The Making Of A Godly Man album that combines two songs, "It Is Well With My Soul/I Surrender All". My second favorite would have to be "How Great Thou Art". My third favorite would be "Turn Your Eyes upon Jesus". I guess I will stop at three. While I enjoy the new praise and worship, I hate seeing churches totally quit using the old hymns.

"It Is Well With My Soul" was writ­ten af­ter two ma­jor trau­mas in Horatio G. Spafford’s life. The first was the great Chi­ca­go Fire of Oc­to­ber 1871, which ru­ined him fi­nan­cial­ly (he had been a weal­thy bus­i­ness­man). Short­ly af­ter, while cross­ing the At­lan­tic, all four of Spaf­ford’s daugh­ters died in a col­li­sion with an­o­ther ship. Spaf­ford’s wife Anna sur­vived and sent him the now fa­mous tel­e­gram, “Saved alone.” Sev­er­al weeks lat­er, as Spaf­ford’s own ship passed near the spot where his daugh­ters died, the Ho­ly Spir­it in­spired these words. They speak to the eter­nal hope that all be­liev­ers have, no mat­ter what pain and grief be­fall them on earth. Iron­ic­al­ly, Philip P. Bliss, who wrote the music, died in a tra­gic train wreck short­ly af­ter writ­ing this mu­sic.

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Hmmm, One favorite.. no can do.
"Til The Storm"
"In The Garden"
"I Should Have Been Crucified"
"And Can It Be That I Should Gain"
'Just A Closer Walk With Thee"
"All That Thrills My Soul"
"He Hideth My Soul"

And so many, many more.
Victory In Jesus has become a bad word in my church. It was being played so much we were all sick of it. But it is still a great song.

 

My favorite is "I Love To Tell The Story", and especially the 4th stanza:
"I love to tell the story,
For those who know it best
Seem hungering and thirsting
To hear it like the rest.
And when, in scenes of glory,
I sing the new, new song,
'Twill be the old, old story
That I have loved so long."
There is an old hymn called "Jesus Lives and So Shall I" and I often read the words at a funeral service. I don't recall ever singing it congregationally, but the words are awesome.

 

I do not have a favorite except perhaps the old rugged cross... or just a closer walk or there is an old negro one that I like called give me Jesus but again I like pass me not... I dont know, I just love to praise HIM... Don't sing well, but I sure make a joyuful noise.