Classic Hymns From The Shadowlands

Immortal Invisible God Only Wise is a Christian hymn with words by Walter Chalmers Smith usually sung to the tune St Denio originally a Welsh ballad tune which became a hymn under the name Palestrina in Caniadau y Cyssegr 1839 edited by John Roberts of Henllan 180718761 Of this hymn musicologist Erik Routley has writtenImmortal Invisible should give the reader a moments pause Most readers will think they know this hymn the work of another Free Kirk minister But it never now appears as its author wrote it and a closer look at it in its fuller form shows that it was by no means designed to be one of those general hymns of praise that the parson slams into the praiselist when he is in too much of a hurry to think of anything else but a hymn about the reading of Scripture Just occasionally editorial tinkering changes the whole personality of a hymn it has certainly done so heresource wikipedia httpsenwikipediaorgwikiImmortalInvisibleGodOnlyWiseLyricsImmortal invisible God only wiseIn light inaccessible hid from o