WALKING BY THE RIVER
100 new hymn and song texts 1998-2008, with other verses
By Christopher Idle. The Good Book Company. 140 pages. £10.00
ISBN 978-1-90633-448-2
This feels like a very personal journey, which the author has been travelling for the last ten years, as reflected in the biographical footnotes on each page; a deep expression of Christian devotion at its most sincere.
This book comprises 100 hymns and spiritual songs in the metrical tradition, with tunes already in circulation suggested by the author, though quite a number are for popular tunes from the world of entertainment, which in my opinion doesn’t usually work very well. e.g. ‘Streets of Laredo’ and ‘Early one Morning’.
