Playing hymns on the piano

[mtbc]

I have taken to simply skipping lower notes when they look to be a painful stretch away from upper ones. Still, today in trying to play Tell Out, My Soul (in my very slow, hesitant way) I nearly ran out of keyboard as there was a very low C♯ that took me a moment to figure out what it was. In some hymns I notice that a switch of staff seems to indicate that I should play the same note first with one hand then the other. It makes sense overall; perhaps I am just noticing it more now.

Update: I also spy a low C in Away in a Manger.