The Highland Weekly News

Old Hundred.

If it be true that Luther composed that tune, and if the worship of mortals is carried on the wings of angels to heaven, how often has been heard the declaration, "They are singing 'Old Hundred' now."

The solemn strain carries us back to the times of the Reformers--Luther and his devoted band. He doubtless, was the first to strike the grand old chords in the public sanctuary of his own Germany. From his stentorian lungs it rolled, vibrating not through the vaulted cathedral roof, but along a grander arch, the eternal heavens. He wrought into each note his own sublime faith, and stamped it with that faith's immortality. Hence it cannot die.-- Neither men nor angels will let it pass into oblivion; but its melodious notes will continue to be chanted as long as the heavenly dome is open to receive them.