It is quite clear that we must cease to think of the Divine Spirit as inspiring only prayers and HYMNS and sermons.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus"
G. A. Chadwick
I have heard her play HYMNS on the organ which I felt must be songs of hope, the words of which promised mercy, for they sounded like it, and she does not play them for amusement; I believe it is her offering for the peace of Allan Dorris, and a prayer could not go farther into heaven than her music.
"The Mystery of the Locks"
Edgar Watson Howe
Sometimes she discovered him in the background of a gathering of hill folk who met in the school-room on Sundays for HYMNS, prayers and a reading of the Scriptures, and sometimes she heard him singing in the distance as he rode along the hill roads.
"The Pioneers"
Katharine Susannah Prichard