Word: hymning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Samuel Francis Smith did not guess just how popular his America* would be or that it would become the nation's best-known patriotic hymn. "Such as it is " he wrote years later, "I am glad to have contributed this mite to the cause of American freedom...
...staging the first comprehensive show of illuminated music manuscripts ever held in the U.S. One of its finest items (lent by the Cleveland Museum of Art) is reproduced on the following page. Below the figure of Christ enthroned in a huge capital A is the opening of a hymn which begins, "Aspiciens alonge, ecce, video dei potentiam" (As I look from afar, behold, I see the power of God). The square music notation is a style still used for Gregorian chant...
...world of "dumb people"-how he became a hero by saving the baby ("new small people") from death in a bedroom fire, how he amazed "Grandmother People" by fetching her slippers every evening, and how he even sneaked into church one day and joined in a hymn...
...bicycle riders. After a "long night in armor," a 1910 gym picture shows a bevy of union-suited beauties straining at pushups, pulleys and punching bags. In another 1910 photograph, Julia Ward Howe, at the age of 91, is being wheeled to a suffrage drive to recite her Battle Hymn of the Republic. Behind her stands Socialite Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont, who once bucked up a despairing suffragette with some super-feminism: "Call on God, my dear, She will help you."* Quicker than the eyes of the women who lived through it, the camera catches the maid, the chaperone...
When the sermon is over, as the 700-voice choir softly hums an "invitation" hymn (Almost Persuaded) to wavering sinners, Billy's voice speaks out again, this time in a coaxing, soothing register: "Come on . . . We're waitin' on you. Don't you want to be born again? . . . You come on, now." Down the aisles, by ones and twos, and then in groups, they come...