Word: hymned
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...hundred years these words have been sung,† or spoken, or whispered by men & women in time of need. The words were sung while the Titanic was sinking and on the beaches of Dunkirk. In World War I, Nurse Edith Cavell repeated the hymn as she faced the firing squad. It has often been heard in prison camps, and it has sounded faintly through the wreckage of caved-in mines...
This Sunday in England's Westminster Abbey, under the statue dedicated to Methodism's hymn-writing founders, John and Charles Wesley, a memorial tablet will be unveiled to Henry Francis Lyte. And in almost every country throughout the world Christians will celebrate the centenary of his death and of the composition of his long-lived hymn...
Before the yellow stucco house at No. 114 Rua 7 de Setembro in the dirty little town of Rio Casca in Minas Gerais State, some 8,000 people, a mosaic of the diseases of Brazil, had been softly singing the haunting hymn I Shall Be with My Mother. The faded grey shutters of the house swung open. A hush came over the malformed, the sick, the hopeful and the curious. One man fell on his knees. Behind him a weeping father supported a son on whose face was an idiot's grin...
...performance is an earthy blending of sex and syncopation (it would take an undauntable jazzophile to tell where one began and the other ended). There isn't much Chippie won't sing or say to keep the show boiling-but she won't sing a hymn in a nightclub. "Now that's wrong. You can't play with God in a nightclub; if you do He'll put an affliction on you." Neither will she sing in church. "As long as I work for the Devil, I better continue with...
...moral in his works . . . also bears a visible Moloch-like stamp. . . . Cities smoking and in flames, slaughtered victims, raped women, even children hurled under horses' hooves or cringing under the dagger of delirious mothers-all his work, I say, resembles a terrible hymn composed in honor of doom and irremediable sorrow...