I am from a small town in Mississippi and it is the same way there. I miss this so much. I miss the times when the whole congregation sang! This is true spirit filled! Glory to God!
This is what I call lining a hymn. I think every church should do this at least once a month, just to remind us, because if we don't pass it one, in 20 it will be a distant memory
My 14 year old just asked, "What are you listening to mom?" I said church songs like when I grew up. He said "really, I thought that was some type of African tribal music". (We attend a more contemporary style church). So even a young person, with a 2 minute listen, is able to recognize the connection right away. This is beautiful music and comes from the depths of the soul and the African American experience.
Sadly, they have replaced the traditions with Praise and Worship teams. It's really sad. And honestly I don't think the new folks have anything to hold. And if you ask the children the contemporary doesn't encourage church attendance either. If we're not building community children will never be interested no matter how many lights and screens and skinny jeans you have.
People tend to be afraid of what they don't understand. I can see this coming back to our churches because of the times that we live in now. It's really a song of total dependence on God.
This is beautiful & also touching...... Moved me spiritually plus connected me with my grandparents when they use to sing like this.... Lord take us back!!!!!!!! THANKS for this clip.... God bless you, Elder contrail Pate
My great-grandmother's church, St. James Baptist Church , in Johnsonville, SC sang meter hymn style and it would make chills go up and down your spine. I pray that this style of singing is always remembered and practiced by music ministries everywhere, especially in the south.
Thank you for sharing , Although u don't hear these hyms sung in most black churches today, it is their loss ... I sing them at home and I can feel the presense of the Lord and the Ancestors and it takes me all the way back to the Motherland! These songs and hymns are so rich and potent, it's like medicine to my soul. A million thanks for sharing. S
Oh, how I miss that call and response! At the churches I attended in my childhood, at the end of a call and response, a deacon would kneel at the front of the church and pray out loud while the congregation would hum the song. So beautiful and heart-felt!
Father, Father, Father Thank You For keeping us. Lord God you've been good to my people, you keep us day by day. What ever you Lord don't leave us alone.
That is wonderful. I hope that love stirs you to fight to keep it alive. This will mean actively opposing the dollar-driven Christian Entertainment industry that pumps out the stuff that is edging out the music of our heritage (both yours and mine).
I DO SO AGREE WITH AMOS! "WE" HAVE TO KEEP IT ALIVE. LET OUR CHILDREN HEAR THIS BEAUTIFUL MUSIC. AS IT SEEPS INTO THEIR SOULS, THEY WILL BEGIN TO APPRECIATE IT AND MAY ONE DAY BRING NATIONAL ATTENTION TO IT!
I believe they called this the chant, normally done when a Deacon was praying or reading a scripture. I am sixty years old and have not seen this type of worship since I was about ten years old. Thank you for posting this video. It is spiritually uplifting and help start my day
Amen ! You are so right. If those same individuals who held us in bondage could come back now, they would see the results of our people crying out to God in song.We are free, and we even have a black president of The United States.Im going to quit now, beause im about to get happy up in here. THANK YOU LORD !!!!
I Just Love This..........Im 18 on the Deacon Board at my church and the Deacons lead in Dr. Watts' but they are not like these which are so moving to my spirit.........GOD BLESS!
Having grown up in a National Baptist Church, and being African American 100% I can say that this form of singing is a combination of African culture and european influence. The stomping on the ground, clapping and responding to the leader (the person speaking before the congregation sings) is an African custom known as call an response. The song is european. The practice of the deacon reading the music is known as "lining a hymn", this is done in the black church because our ancestors as slaves did not all know how to read. I must note that the only way to properly carry out this form is to have been brought up in it and be spirit led.
2020... Father I stretch my hand to thee, heal me, and our land! When I was in foster care our church used to sing this song I remember my foster mother and the church, I pray for us all!
My God, My God... this took me sooo far back into my memories.. but I remember this one coming up as a child... stirs my soul this morning sitting here at work.. the saints worshipped the living God as a body..
Listen to the church, nothin sounds like that but the church. This is African American history in living, sound and color. When I was young I used to follow my Pastor down in Carolina when he did revivals (the late Rev. John Stewart) and as a teenager I knew this was special. I am over 40 now and still sounds the same. I can wait to get to heaven. I want to be in a the Prayer Band singing these songs of Zion. I have got to get the DVD
This is refreshing havent heard a hymn lined in a LONGGGGG TIME. I agree i am 30 and i remember this is as a kid and ill say modern has nothing on this. i moss and long for this again
Growing up in a Baptist church in the American south, this seemed almost innocuous to me, but as an adult, I realize how much of a cultural gem this is. I'm long gone away from the church, but do people still do this? I was born in the 80s and I had plenty of exposure to great-grandparents and grandparents who knew about this, but how much does the younger generation know about this?
This is an extract of the extraordinary congregational/communal singing evolved from West Africa into the African-American Culture and preserved in the Black Baptist tradition. I remember hearing something similar at my Grandmother's Wake and graveside service in Jamaica, as rendered by her peers. I knew I would probably never hear that kind of singing again, as her generation would soon die out.
I believe the tradition is called "Lining" hymns. I heard it in my father's church, and thought I would never hear it again. Thank you so much for posting. This is true "Praise Music" .
This is not my tradition but I wish it were. This music gets inside of you, points you to Jesus who crushes you in order to rebuild you into an image of HImself and it keeps you by HIs side. This isn't some trite sounding, radio, top 40 bop. This music is a friend who pushes you forward when all you want to do is quit. This music helps you see clearer the Lord who has His arms stretched out to receive you. There is nothing else like this music. May God be pleased to preserve it.
This is beautiful. We have to find a way to preserve this. I would much rather sing in unison while fellowshipping, instead of watching praise dancers and praise teams.
+Melinda Brown These Hymns of Glory will never die out because these Saints of old have children who have children and I am one of those children. I didn't even know the words to appreciate these songs til I lived a little life and ran to Jesus just as I was weary, worn and sad and I have found in Him a resting place and He has made me Glad. These songs were instilled in me by a praying grandmother and a chosen people. I search out these churches in Charlotte, Rock Hill, York and there is no shortage. God will raise up anyone to give Him his due Praise. Speak those things that be not as they were.....the Holy Spirit is from everlasting to everlasting. Be Blessed in your comings and goings Sister Melinda Brown!
Now this is what I grew up on. My grandfather was Chrm of the Deacon Board. Those old Deacons would sing like this before Pastor took the pulpit. No music, then they sat down,and the beautiful organ would sound at the command of Mr Hamilton the great organist. Where did those days go. The pastor, my grandfather and most of the deacons are gone to heaven and so has Mr Hamilton.
Thank you for creating this channel. This takes me back to my childhood as I currently live in an area in which churches have diminished the value of the choir. I hope and pray these hymns are still being sung today
My college professor Dr, Mildred Green of LeMoyne-Owen College in Memphis, TN as metered hymns. It comes from the African churches during the time of slavery in America
What a treasure! This is one reason I despise the Christian Entertainment Industry, and what it is doing to traditional church music. Unless something happens to break the grip the industry has on young people, this type of singing will die when these people do.
I searched for this hymn and I was trying to sing along with them, but their voices were so jumbled together, that I couldn't tell where they were. Such a pity it's not clear
When I was a child this was considered dead musicals and was replaced with more a lot of European style harmonies. It was not until I got attended an Historically Black College that I learned to appreciate the music styles of our African and slaver heritage. Listen to the tight harmony and meters. Wow what a rich sound from the soul. Others have picked this up an claimed it as American Music in other parts the country.
Now I have never heard this version of this hymn before. VERY interesting!!!!! Just shows you that the same hymn is sung differently in different regions of the country and sometime even the next county over. lol
I am from a small town in Mississippi and it is the same way there. I miss this so much. I miss the times when the whole congregation sang! This is true spirit filled! Glory to God!
This is what I call lining a hymn. I think every church should do this at least once a month, just to remind us, because if we don't pass it one, in 20 it will be a distant memory
Amen
Please don’t ever delete this 🖤
If this doesnt get you to where you need to be, nothing will..God is alive in this sound, you can literally feel him!
My 14 year old just asked, "What are you listening to mom?" I said church songs like when I grew up. He said "really, I thought that was some type of African tribal music". (We attend a more contemporary style church). So even a young person, with a 2 minute listen, is able to recognize the connection right away. This is beautiful music and comes from the depths of the soul and the African American experience.
Sadly, they have replaced the traditions with Praise and Worship teams. It's really sad. And honestly I don't think the new folks have anything to hold. And if you ask the children the contemporary doesn't encourage church attendance either. If we're not building community children will never be interested no matter how many lights and screens and skinny jeans you have.
People tend to be afraid of what they don't understand. I can see this coming back to our churches because of the times that we live in now. It's really a song of total dependence on God.
This is beautiful & also touching...... Moved me spiritually plus connected me with my grandparents when they use to sing like this.... Lord take us back!!!!!!!! THANKS for this clip.... God bless you, Elder contrail Pate
I miss this type of singing.
My great-grandmother's church, St. James Baptist Church , in Johnsonville, SC sang meter hymn style and it would make chills go up and down your spine. I pray that this style of singing is always remembered and practiced by music ministries everywhere, especially in the south.
My people in Britton's Neck--Red Hill MBC and Bethel AME--used to sing with the old meter hymn style, too. Big ups to J-Ville.
My people at St. Paul Baptist Church in Chester, SC sings this style, too. Grew up in it
Thank you for sharing , Although u don't hear these hyms sung in most black churches today, it is their loss ... I sing them at home and I can feel the presense of the Lord and the Ancestors and it takes me all the way back to the Motherland! These songs and hymns are so rich and potent, it's like medicine to my soul. A million thanks for sharing.
S
Oh, how I miss that call and response! At the churches I attended in my childhood, at the end of a call and response, a deacon would kneel at the front of the church and pray out loud while the congregation would hum the song. So beautiful and heart-felt!
got my spirit right this morning thank you goosebumps all over the place. Old time church YES!! need more of this kind of praising
Father, Father, Father Thank You For keeping us. Lord God you've been good to my people, you keep us day by day. What ever you Lord don't leave us alone.
iREALLY miss this type of devotional service!
This is a FREIGHT TRAIN of spiritual power - once it gets going, get out the way or you're gonna get run over
Man when they start singing together I be close to the edge!! My God it's like a break through in their voices! Praise God
Nothing, like NOTHING, stirs my soul like these ole time songs... Never let this traditon disappear!!!
I am so in love with this music of my heritage. I stirs me to the core of my being.
That is wonderful. I hope that love stirs you to fight to keep it alive. This will mean actively opposing the dollar-driven Christian Entertainment industry that pumps out the stuff that is edging out the music of our heritage (both yours and mine).
Yes Lord!
YEAHS!
I DO SO AGREE WITH AMOS! "WE" HAVE TO KEEP IT ALIVE. LET OUR CHILDREN HEAR THIS BEAUTIFUL MUSIC. AS IT SEEPS INTO THEIR SOULS, THEY WILL BEGIN TO APPRECIATE IT AND MAY ONE DAY BRING NATIONAL ATTENTION TO IT!
Yes Lord. Brings me back to my childhood. 😭🙌🏽🖤
I believe they called this the chant, normally done when a Deacon was praying or reading a scripture. I am sixty years old and have not seen this type of worship since I was about ten years old.
Thank you for posting this video. It is spiritually uplifting and help start my day
My mother who passed away in 2003 remembered this style of singing back in the hills of eastern Ky.
Hallelujah brothers and sisters. Todays revivalist churches ain't got nothin' on these mamas and papas.
These hymns keep me going and listen to this hymn this take me back to when I was a child
AME ZION MEMBERS !
Lawd this is sooooo beautiful. My soul says yes.
Amen ! You are so right. If those same individuals who held us in bondage could come back now, they would see the results of our people crying out to God in song.We are free, and we even have a black president of The United States.Im going to quit now, beause im about to get happy up in here. THANK YOU LORD !!!!
Makes me think of my Granny.... Rest in power
I Just Love This..........Im 18 on the Deacon Board at my church and the Deacons lead in Dr. Watts' but they are not like these which are so moving to my spirit.........GOD BLESS!
There is a soprano on the "I stretch my hands" part who is SANGING!!
DaSourcespr06 yes sahhhhh!!!
Having grown up in a National Baptist Church, and being African American 100% I can say that this form of singing is a combination of African culture and european influence. The stomping on the ground, clapping and responding to the leader (the person speaking before the congregation sings) is an African custom known as call an response. The song is european. The practice of the deacon reading the music is known as "lining a hymn", this is done in the black church because our ancestors as slaves did not all know how to read. I must note that the only way to properly carry out this form is to have been brought up in it and be spirit led.
Micheal Gardner Thanks for your comments - I was raised in this music form & comments were so very accurate.
Dr. Watts!!!
2020... Father I stretch my hand to thee, heal me, and our land! When I was in foster care our church used to sing this song I remember my foster mother and the church, I pray for us all!
My God, My God... this took me sooo far back into my memories.. but I remember this one coming up as a child... stirs my soul this morning sitting here at work.. the saints worshipped the living God as a body..
Listen to the church, nothin sounds like that but the church. This is African American history in living, sound and color. When I was young I used to follow my Pastor down in Carolina when he did revivals (the late Rev. John Stewart) and as a teenager I knew this was special. I am over 40 now and still sounds the same. I can wait to get to heaven. I want to be in a the Prayer Band singing these songs of Zion. I have got to get the DVD
You have to have had the experience to appreciate the hymns...I grew up w/it & still enjoy hearing them...it feeds my spirit
Robin Jewell I had this experience growing up and I appreciate it more today than then, It truly feeds the soul!!
+Robin Jewell My grandmother gone 15 years + and it was instilled in me....Glory Be to God!!!
Now they got the kids rapping and praise dancing in church. These were the days
Where are the men who are to pass this tradition alone to the youth! On the corners?
Lining a hymn, it’s our tradition. I’m grateful for the churches that still line hymns. I’m blessed that I learned how to line a hymn as a child.
This relaxes my soul and hits my inner being very anointed!
I grew up on this kind of singing....THANK YOU JESUS
This is refreshing havent heard a hymn lined in a LONGGGGG TIME. I agree i am 30 and i remember this is as a kid and ill say modern has nothing on this. i moss and long for this again
My gpa would sing songs like this. Some churches in TN still sing like this.....
Less I should forget where I came from, what pain my forefathers suffered for me
Growing up in a Baptist church in the American south, this seemed almost innocuous to me, but as an adult, I realize how much of a cultural gem this is. I'm long gone away from the church, but do people still do this? I was born in the 80s and I had plenty of exposure to great-grandparents and grandparents who knew about this, but how much does the younger generation know about this?
This is powerful! I love it. We don't sing like this anymore. I've got to go home to Irmo, SC to get this kind of music. Thanks for sharing.
This is an extract of the extraordinary congregational/communal singing evolved from West Africa into the African-American Culture and preserved in the Black Baptist tradition. I remember hearing something similar at my Grandmother's Wake and graveside service in Jamaica, as rendered by her peers. I knew I would probably never hear that kind of singing again, as her generation would soon die out.
This is beautiful singing
I believe the tradition is called "Lining" hymns. I heard it in my father's church, and thought I would never hear it again. Thank you so much for posting. This is true "Praise Music" .
I am so glad to hear all of these old songs. They take me back to my childhood in Lancaster County SC.
I love this. We sing this same hymn but not like this. Beautiful. The foot stomping adds to the great sound. What a spiritual sound.
I will learn this song and pass it on to my children.
This is not my tradition but I wish it were. This music gets inside of you, points you to Jesus who crushes you in order to rebuild you into an image of HImself and it keeps you by HIs side. This isn't some trite sounding, radio, top 40 bop. This music is a friend who pushes you forward when all you want to do is quit. This music helps you see clearer the Lord who has His arms stretched out to receive you. There is nothing else like this music. May God be pleased to preserve it.
I LOVE IT!!!
This is beautiful. We have to find a way to preserve this. I would much rather sing in unison while fellowshipping, instead of watching praise dancers and praise teams.
This that old time religion, sadly it may die out with the members singing it😔
+Melinda Brown These Hymns of Glory will never die out because these Saints of old have children who have children and I am one of those children. I didn't even know the words to appreciate these songs til I lived a little life and ran to Jesus just as I was weary, worn and sad and I have found in Him a resting place and He has made me Glad. These songs were instilled in me by a praying grandmother and a chosen people. I search out these churches in Charlotte, Rock Hill, York and there is no shortage. God will raise up anyone to give Him his due Praise. Speak those things that be not as they were.....the Holy Spirit is from everlasting to everlasting. Be Blessed in your comings and goings Sister Melinda Brown!
Now this is what I grew up on. My grandfather was Chrm of the Deacon Board. Those old Deacons would sing like this before Pastor took the pulpit. No music, then they sat down,and the beautiful organ would sound at the command of Mr Hamilton the great organist. Where did those days go. The pastor, my grandfather and most of the deacons are gone to heaven and so has Mr Hamilton.
BEAUTIFUL! BEAUTIFUL! BEAUTIFUL!
I enjoy your hymns keep posting these for us
This is incredibly moving!!!!!
sounds like HOME! thank you jesus
This is beautiful and so was the singer that took lead. Was wonderful to hear and see. Thank you.
LOVING THIS!!!!!!!!!
Thank you for creating this channel. This takes me back to my childhood as I currently live in an area in which churches have diminished the value of the choir. I hope and pray these hymns are still being sung today
This is FREIGHT TRAIN of spiritual power...
These are Love Songs to our Lord and Savior, they will literally bring tears to your eyes, Father l stretch my hands to the. 🙏🏽🕊👑❤
My college professor Dr, Mildred Green of LeMoyne-Owen College in Memphis, TN as metered hymns. It comes from the African churches during the time of slavery in America
MESMERIZING!
When the one Deacon gets up and start leading this Hymn ..yes Lord!!
What a treasure!
This is one reason I despise the Christian Entertainment Industry, and what it is doing to traditional church music. Unless something happens to break the grip the industry has on young people, this type of singing will die when these people do.
Very true indeed.
gosh I sooo agree with you
Anesati Pili greatsinging
Agree
Before I moved to charlotte 2yr ago, I didn't even know hymn choirs existed, but I love to hear them sing now....
Here in 2021 during the Covid pandemic.
Thank you for recording and posting this - just wonderful...
wow i have not heard a hymn lined in a hot min... then its long meter... wow great job
I have thoroughly enjoyed your channel and this style of hymn singing. Please post more!
This is my type of praising.
Looove this!
I can't listen to this on the bus or train cause towards the end it gets good too me and I just want to rock and start clappin my hands!
Thank you 3403 for doing your homework. Keep teaching! SMILE.
Yes!!!!!!
That's an interesting tune on this song.
Touching and powerful note singing.
YES, YES, YES!!!!! GLORYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!
My GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!
All the Spiritual Hymn are still and have anyways been sung here in the great state of South Carolina. look at the stop down by the title of the video
yes sir! Beaufort south Carolina
can we have devotion!!! love it!!
amen
I wish I could have heard it clear but it was in and out. reminded me of my granny mama church
Hymn Choir Channel thanks
Now that is power one body in Christ Jesus!!
wow love it sooooo much......one of the best versions.....I heard thus far..
I searched for this hymn and I was trying to sing along with them, but their voices were so jumbled together, that I couldn't tell where they were. Such a pity it's not clear
yes yes !!!!! that's it say that father i stretch my hands to thee!!!!!
I remember at my church ⛪
When I was a child this was considered dead musicals and was replaced with more a lot of European style harmonies. It was not until I got attended an Historically Black College that I learned to appreciate the music styles of our African and slaver heritage. Listen to the tight harmony and meters. Wow what a rich sound from the soul. Others have picked this up an claimed it as American Music in other parts the country.
A fantastic example of lined-out hymnody! Thanks!
como é bom ver-mos a igreja verdadeiramente adorando ao Senhor.
+Ananias Nascimento Haitianos?
MY GOD!!!!!!!
first time hearing this
i love it
Sang Church!!!!!!!!!!!
GOOD LAWD!!!!!
I never heard his song sung like this but I do like it it's really different.
POWERFUL-MY GOD....POWERFUL!!!!!!! ALL WILL NOT UNDERSTANDING.....
Yeah it keep help lean on Jesus cause he's know heart
Are there more videos of this type of singing. I love it
Now I have never heard this version of this hymn before. VERY interesting!!!!! Just shows you that the same hymn is sung differently in different regions of the country and sometime even the next county over. lol