Blessed Assurance
A friend emailed me this today. This is my favorite hymn.
Short history of the best song of all.... and a story related to the song Blessed Assurance Words: Fanny Crosby, 1873: My friend, Mrs. Joseph F. Knapp, composed a melody and played it over to me two or three times on the piano. She then asked what it said. I replied, “Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine!”
Story... “During the recent war in the Transvaal,” said a gentleman at my meeting in Exeter Hall, London, in 1900, “when the soldiers going to the front were passing another body of soldiers whom they recognized, their greetings used to be, ‘Four-nine-four, boys; four-nine-four;’ and the salute would invariably be answered with ‘Six further on, boys; six further on.’ The significance of this was that, in ‘Sacred Songs and Solos,’ a number of copies of the small edition of which had been sent to the front, number 494 was ‘God be with you until we meet again;’ and six further on than 494, or number 500, was ‘Blessed Assurance, Jesus is mine.’”
I haven't posted in a while. A lot has happened since my last post. One of my best friends mom died. It's turkey season so my friends, minus one, came up. The toms were not responding to the call so nothing remarkable to tell there. They are coming back up this Sunday for another run at it. Hopefully the toms will be chasing hens by then and I'll have something better to report. Work has been stressful. I've learned that I truly hate conflict. Funny since I'm in the business of conflict. Things are looking brighter on this front.
Peace.
b
Short history of the best song of all.... and a story related to the song Blessed Assurance Words: Fanny Crosby, 1873: My friend, Mrs. Joseph F. Knapp, composed a melody and played it over to me two or three times on the piano. She then asked what it said. I replied, “Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine!”
Story... “During the recent war in the Transvaal,” said a gentleman at my meeting in Exeter Hall, London, in 1900, “when the soldiers going to the front were passing another body of soldiers whom they recognized, their greetings used to be, ‘Four-nine-four, boys; four-nine-four;’ and the salute would invariably be answered with ‘Six further on, boys; six further on.’ The significance of this was that, in ‘Sacred Songs and Solos,’ a number of copies of the small edition of which had been sent to the front, number 494 was ‘God be with you until we meet again;’ and six further on than 494, or number 500, was ‘Blessed Assurance, Jesus is mine.’”
I haven't posted in a while. A lot has happened since my last post. One of my best friends mom died. It's turkey season so my friends, minus one, came up. The toms were not responding to the call so nothing remarkable to tell there. They are coming back up this Sunday for another run at it. Hopefully the toms will be chasing hens by then and I'll have something better to report. Work has been stressful. I've learned that I truly hate conflict. Funny since I'm in the business of conflict. Things are looking brighter on this front.
Peace.
b
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