Just last night as I was drifting off to sleep, I started thinking about the great hymns I grew up with. Though there ARE a few exceptional modern songs that truly do contribute to genuine worship, many today are repetitive, single stanza ones, that seem like a waste of time. Hymns such as “The Old Rugged Cross”, “What a Friend We Have in Jesus”, “How Great Thou Art” and “Amazing Grace” preach a story and help remind us of our great God and Savior. I find it difficult to get through them with dry eyes.
Those are four great anointed hymns - no doubt - but to your point, I think you could go through a book of 400 hymns and find 375 that are not anointed at all.