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Re: hymns: was Re: The Ob Sessions
thanks to all who listed some of your favorite hymns. A few of them I've
never heard. I'll have to check our hymnal and see if I can use a little
deaconal clout to try them out.
Kylie mentioned:
<< It is well with my soul >>
have you ever heard the background story to this hymn? The man who wrote "it
is well with my soul" lost his son, then lost almost everything in the great
Chicago fire, and then lost his four daughters in a shipwreck. The story
goes that while crossing the ocean to be with his wife after the shipwreck he
passed very close to where his daughters had died and that's when he started
writing it.
a couple places I found the story:
http://www.lauraslyrics.com/it_is_well_with_my_soul__horatio.htm
http://www.geocities.com/cott1388/spafford.html
(one says the info is spotty on when he actually started writing it. Who
knows what to believe with Internet articles.)
ysoie:
Hatikva, for me. It always makes me cry, but this past year or two has
been especially difficult.
thanks ysoie, I had never heard it. It is a beautiful anthem. I'd like to
hear it sometime with the words even though I'd need the translation at hand
to understand it.
Chris: Ashley Cleveland's hymns rock!
Franny: J.M. Talbot has done some renditions of old hymns that are wonderful.
Those would count ;-)
another bit of hymn history:
amazing grace, for those who don't know was written by a guy with an
interesting story too. It was written by a former slave trader. I did a net
search to get a bit of the story:
http://www.gospelcom.net/chi/GLIMPSEF/Glimpses/glmps028.shtml
kevin
If there really is a pole at the North Pole, I bet there's some dead
explorer-guy with his tongue stuck to it.
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