An anniversary celebration

Today at First Presbyterian Church we celebrated the 60th anniversary of the building we're in now, the fifth in a series of buildings dating back to 1831.  The service was lovely and I was interested to learn that all the music - prelude, postlude, choir piece and hymns - sung today were the same as those used at the consecration service in 1956. I must admit I wasn't too crazy about the anthem the choir sang but I felt right at home with the hymns: "The Church's One Foundation," "All People That On Earth Do Dwell," and the ever popular "A Might Fortress is Our God." Of course they sang the Presbyterian translation of that last one which, after more than 35 years as a Presbyterian, still doesn't sound quite right to me. Ah well, it was still a lovely service.