Word: hymning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death ..." They heard the words of St. Paul to the Romans: "For as many as are led by the spirit of God, they are the sons of God." They all rose and sang with remarkable force a 19th century hymn: "I fear no foe, with thee at hand to bless;/ Ills have no weight, and tears no bitterness." The church was not really sad just then-the significance of the moment to the men and women there went beyond grief. Hate died. As the service ended, there seemed...
...What former Nixon aide wears ties with embroidered elephants, entertains guests with a recording of the Marine Battle Hymn, and has the Green Beret motto, "If you've got 'em by the balls, their hearts and minds will soon follow," inscribed above...
...talks like a veteran about performing strategy: "I'll sing hard country like Old Dan Tucker or sweet pop like How Can I Tell Him. I usually have something patriotic and something religious. Up North I close with the Battle Hymn of the Republic; down South I use Dixie...
...signal was to be a Tennessee Ernie Ford recording of Onward, Christian Soldiers played first thing Sunday morning over Radio Uganda On hearing the hymn, conspirators outside Kampala would know that Uganda's erratic, xenophobic President general Idi ("Big Daddy") Amin Dada was dead and would move to consolidate the coup d'état in the countryside. Last week, right on schedule, a "special request" was phoned in to the station and the hymn went out over the air vvaves. But instead of signaling the demise of Amin's brutal dictatorship, it turned into a threnody...
...stone church of St. Michel in the tiny French village of Rodlinghem is full this Sunday morning. A strapping, red-bearded farmer named Gilbert, 22, leads the choir and congregation in the first hymn. As the notes die, 28-year-old Jean-Paul, a wiry, lean-faced legal clerk standing at the sanctuary lectern, launches into a short homily on the meaning of Lent, likening the penitential season to an automobile overhaul. After more songs and the reading of the Gospel, Pierre, 66, a sturdy, gray-haired retired farmer, leaves his pew and walks to the tabernacle. There he removes...