Word: lordes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Precious Lord...
...decided to sing the gospel song Precious Lord. The words, as the congregation knew them, were straightforward and simple...
...Precious Lord, take my hand...
THERE is no music like that music, no drama like the drama of the saints rejoicing, the sinners moaning, the tambourines racing, and all those voices coming together and crying holy unto the Lord. I have never seen anything to equal the fire and excitement that sometimes, without warning, fill a church, causing the church, as Leadbelly and so many others have testified, to "rock." Nothing that has happened to me since equals the power and the glory that I sometimes felt when . . . the church and I were one. Their pain and their joy were mine, and mine were theirs...
...example, his brother Frank wrote to him back in 1916: "What the world wants of first-class intellects like yours is not action-for which the ordinary politician or demagogue is good enough-but thought, a much more rare quality." Good advice, but in political matters, at least, Lord Russell's thought has not always served him very well...