The love for "the old words and the old tunes" against which all innovators in hymnody, however deserving, have to do battle, asserts itself under the form of love for the old prayers with ten-fold vehemence.
"A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer"
William Reed Huntington
What is it that is wrong with our hymnody?
"A Practical Discourse on Some Principles of Hymn-Singing"
Robert Bridges
As types of true hymnody, they have never been surpassed.
"The Story of Our Hymns"
Ernest Edwin Ryden