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.

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