We are indebted to the Scots Presbyterian, Rev. Iain D. Campbell, Free Church of Scotland, Isle of Lewis, for the impetus to singing the Psalms again. This scribe pulled his old Scots Psalter and is using it in connection with every Psalm for Morning and Evening Prayers as well as the daily lections, 10 AM and 4 PM. Being retired offers the additional time that it takes. It has been a solid addition to the Book of Common Prayer, 1662.
Additionally, scribe's maternal grandfather transmitted to me, the patriarch in the line, the familybaptism Bible that goes back to Glasgow, 1833. One of the baptisms contains an inscription, to wit, by the Pastor that notes that Genesis 17 was sung on the occasion.
In the back of the Bible, there are 150 Psalms for singing, as one would expect from old school Confessional Presbyterians.
However, this sturdy breed of folks also sang Hymns or Paraphrases from sections of Genesis through Revelation. I've asked a few Scottish sources for some answers without any forthcoming. Why just the Psalms? They exclusively sing the Psalms. However, the Presbyterians of Scotland in my line sang more than the Psalms. They sung the Bible.
As a retired Veteran with many, many moves with the military, that old Bible ended up in a box. I had no clue where it was.
As of today, my goodly wife, Sharon, has informed me she knows exactly where the Bible is. We'll be bringing more. But those Hymns shall soon be annexed and used with MP and EP.
I have enough musical literacy to put the metres and tunes to them. The Hymns are printed only with a metre-numeratives and tune names affixed (no notes). A rich find.
Singing adds a dynamic to aid our lisping efforts and our grand duties of praise befitting His Majesty. It invokes affections as well as mental involvements.
Ephesians 1.17-21, ...that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the exceeding greatness of His power towards us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, far all all principality and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come. And He put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be head over all things to the church, which is His body, the fulness of Him who fills all in all.
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