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Post by Get off of TMB on Oct 6, 2017 8:55:27 GMT -5
I have heard the workers mention this a few times. A lady had professed but left becoming a movie star. She wasn't one of the top stars like Bette Davis, Katherine Hepburne, Elizabeth Taylor and the likes. She wrote this hymn before she died. It begins with "I stand on the shore of an unknown land". Who was this lady? How long did she profess?
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Post by Get off of TMB on Oct 6, 2017 8:57:05 GMT -5
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Post by Get off of TMB on Oct 6, 2017 8:57:57 GMT -5
Eternity's Awakening .. a sacred song
"I stand on the shores of an unknown land,
On the brink of Eternity,
At last! At last! I can understand the worth of reality;
Earth promis'd me much! but my end is this; I die unheeded, unknown,
I drank with the many the cup of bliss But the dregs I drink alone.
Chorus:
Too late! Too late! No strong loving hand Can I see out stretch'd for me,
Alone on an unknown shore I stand, On the brink of Eternity.
The love that so many professed for me is gone when I need it most,
The joys of earth that were lavished free Full many a tear have cost;
And now as I touch eternity's brow, Life reads with a meaning new,
The real separates from the unreal now, The false joys from the true
Believed to have been composed by an Irish singer woman after being disappointed in
many of her life's experiences
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Post by CherieKropp on Oct 6, 2017 9:03:22 GMT -5
I found these notes someone wrote me in my files about this song.
There's a song that supposedly Jean Harlow wrote.
Eternity's Awakening. #344 from the hymnbook that was published before the 1951 edition.
I didn't see any name of who compiled it, other than the Pickering.......
I remember Howard [Mooney] telling the story of a movie star, Jean Harlow, who left this hymn she had written. I rather think that it was left to a friend, maybe one of "the friends." Reportedly the hymn had an atrocious tune, and it was in one of the leaflets.
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Post by Get off of TMB on Oct 6, 2017 9:12:38 GMT -5
This Jean Harlow?
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Post by blandie on Oct 6, 2017 14:24:22 GMT -5
There's a song that supposedly Jean Harlow wrote.
Eternity's Awakening. #344 from the hymnbook that was published before the 1951 edition.
I didn't see any name of who compiled it, other than the Pickering.......
I remember Howard [Mooney] telling the story of a movie star, Jean Harlow, who left this hymn she had written. I rather think that it was left to a friend, maybe one of "the friends." Reportedly the hymn had an atrocious tune, and it was in one of the leaflets. Yeah it would have to have been before the 1951 edition since harlow died in 1937. I wonder when she'd ever have had time to attend meetings or profess or write hymns in her short life tho? Her real name was Harlean Carpenter and she was born in kansas city where she went to private schools. Her mother was real protective of her and not the type to let her out to go to gospel meetings even later and when she was 12 she and her mother moved to los angeles to try to get into films. She was sent to a boarding school in michigan then - at age 16 with her divorced mothers permission - married a wealthy chicagoan. After the wedding she immediately moved to beverly hills and was very quickly doing parts in films. In a couple of years she a major star and then died at age 26 of kidney disease. Probably princess Victoria or kate hepburn or clark gable or one of those other supposedly professing movie folks dragged her to gospel meetings  |
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Post by Get off of TMB on Oct 7, 2017 13:51:01 GMT -5
This poem is a good one for a Saturday night meeting.
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Post by continuer on Oct 7, 2017 16:15:35 GMT -5
I wonder if there is any clear evidence to link the authorship of this poem to Jean Harlow? I also have heard it said that she wrote this but having regard to some of her other "quotes", many of which were not very spiritual, I have always thought it unlikely. Happy to be proved wrong! "I die unheeded, unknown" was hardly the way Jean Harlow died.
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Post by xna on Oct 8, 2017 16:57:03 GMT -5
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Post by Gerry on Feb 4, 2019 10:28:04 GMT -5
I don't believe Jean Harlow wrote this poem More misinformation from the workers, to make you believe everything they tell you, to keep a tighter control on you, via mind control. A great story, that she used to profess, How convenient. If anything, it was written by a worker or elder, for brainwashing of the "Friends". Scare tactic.
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Post by christiansburg on Feb 5, 2019 0:08:33 GMT -5
I have heard the workers mention this a few times. A lady had professed but left becoming a movie star. She wasn't one of the top stars like Bette Davis, Katherine Hepburne, Elizabeth Taylor and the likes. She wrote this hymn before she died. It begins with "I stand on the shore of an unknown land". Who was this lady? How long did she profess? I am familiar with this song but haven't heard the story you mentioned attached to it. I will try to find it and see if the author is named. I don't think it was ever in our hymn book. |
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