Current Versions
Today the hymn is often condensed into a smaller number (typically between six and eight) stanzas. In Great Britain, some hymnal editors re-order the first three verses (O for a thousand tongues to sing; My gracious Master and my God; Jesus, the name that charms our fears).
The editors of the United Methodist Hymnal omitted the verse containing the words "dumb" and "lame", but later reverted to the original version.
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Famous quotes containing the words current and/or versions:
“But there, where I have garnered up my heart,
Where either I must live or bear no life;
The fountain from the which my current runs
Or else dries up: to be discarded thence,
Or keep it as a cistern for foul toads
To knot and gender in!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man’s ability to adapt to changing circumstances.”
—Stephen Bayley (b. 1951)