Word: hymning
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...Protestant democratic usage, all faithful Christians are saints, as the word is used throughout the New Testament epistles. Thus a popular Protestant hymn notes that the "saints of God are just folks like me." But Protestants, like Catholics, do sometimes distinguish between the everyday and the heroic. Despite the criticism of his authoritarian personality and his patronizing attitude toward Africans that arose even before his death, Albert Schweitzer is still commonly considered a Protestant saint. So is the Lutheran martyr to the Nazis, Theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Salvation Army Founder William Booth, African Missionary David Livingstone and Methodism's revered...
Although he barely escaped death when the fire bomb exploded in his home office, Coleman insisted he is not bitter and expressed his faith by reciting "The Battle Hymn of the Republic...
Nostalgia for nostalgia's sake seems to be the only plausible explanation for this show. Fifty-eight songs follow each other with breakneck rapidity, and they date from 1840 to 1938. No discernible rationale governs the choices. They range from the martial patriotism of Battle Hymn of the Republic through the blatant silliness of Rudolf Friml's Something Seems Tingle Ingleing to the Hollywood beat of Lullaby of Broadway...
...somewhat lugubrious in its treatment of the light dance-tunes, and their heavily accented version of the Shaker song "Simple Gifts" sounded a bit like "The Battle Hymn of the Republic", but these failings were more than compensated for by their delicacy during the so-called duo between the Bride and her Intended, and by the almost fervent, prayerful quality they brought to the quiet ending...
...Place is a nightmare of black survival in the white-dominated world, never quite salvaging their own pride from degradation and suffering. A would-be playwright meanders drunkenly across the stage singing the old revival hymn "Wash Me Whiter Than Snow," and condemning the not-so-antiseptic world his family found when they tried to leave their "dirty, filthy nigger hovels across the tracks" and imitate "clean, white people...