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Post by jetmech on Apr 13, 2018 6:55:08 GMT -5
I always loved that hymn where some of the words were something like " .... I see in each a destiny ..." " ... let me choose as I would choose When time and seasons are no more ..." I haven't heard that hymn since childhood and I'm wondering if someone in the truth wrote it?
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Post by CherieKropp on Apr 13, 2018 6:59:30 GMT -5
Hymn 130 LORD Jesus, teach me how to choose, A thousand choices bar my way; I see in each a destiny, So help me wisely choose I pray; Thy choices all in youth were made, And everything that tempteth me, A hundredfold on Thee was laid, Why should I then not come to Thee?
Lord Jesus, teach me how to choose, Talk Thou with me these choices o’er. Then let me choose as I would choose, When time and seasons are no more.
2 Lord Jesus, teach me how to choose, For I am but a little child Within a world of mystery, Where death and darkness surgeth wild; The many standards earth has set, The joy it offers warily, You left untouched, I’d be like Thee, O Noble Youth of Galilee.
3 Lord Jesus, teach me how to choose, I’m glad that Thou dost understand The struggle of the youthful heart, The snares that lie on ev’ry hand; And tho’ I do not grasp it now, Better I’ll know when life is done, Why Thou didst point the hardest path, Asked me the straightest course to run.
Words by Elma (Wiebe) Milton (1907- , U.S.A.), a worker in the States, wrote Nos. 81, 160 and 288. No. 81 was written after her mother's death, when she was home for a short time and was anxious about her younger sister, who was still in her teens and had professed, knowing when she left the home she would have to face life's battles on her own. She wrote this hymn to help her sister.
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Post by jetmech on Apr 13, 2018 7:35:41 GMT -5
Thanks Cherie ... that's like handing me a gold nugget. I LOVE that hymn so much ... truly brings tears to my eyes again after all these years.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2018 13:54:48 GMT -5
Also one of my favorites
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Post by blacksheep on Apr 14, 2018 17:15:03 GMT -5
The melody of this hymn is taken from "I'll Take YOu Home Again, Kathleen".
According to Wikipedia: "I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen" is a popular song written by Thomas P. Westendorf in 1875. (The music is loosely based on Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E Flat Minor Opus 64 Second Movement). In spite of its German-American origins, it is widely mistaken to be an Irish ballad. Westendorf, then teaching at the reform school known as the Indiana House of Refuge for Juvenile Offenders in Hendricks County, Indiana, wrote it – apparently – for his wife (who was, however, named Jennie). It's in the form of an "answer" to a popular ballad of the time, "Barney, Take Me Home Again," composed by Westendorf’s close friend, George W. Brown, writing under the nom de plume of George W. Persley.
I am attaching Elvis Presley's version:
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Post by blacksheep on Apr 14, 2018 17:24:34 GMT -5
Here's an instrumental version:
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Post by sharingtheriches on Apr 14, 2018 22:27:11 GMT -5
Thanks Cherie ... that's like handing me a gold nugget. I LOVE that hymn so much ... truly brings tears to my eyes again after all these years. Makes me miss Gram so very much! Seems she sung this very often. She was one who sang while working esp. in the garden. Some songs she'd sing while hoeing weeds out of the garden got a double whack in certain spots for emphasis!
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Post by jetmech on Apr 15, 2018 0:04:40 GMT -5
Thanks Cherie ... that's like handing me a gold nugget. I LOVE that hymn so much ... truly brings tears to my eyes again after all these years. Makes me miss Gram so very much! Seems she sung this very often. She was one who sang while working esp. in the garden. Some songs she'd sing while hoeing weeds out of the garden got a double whack in certain spots for emphasis! Daaaang Sharing ... I know what you mean .... I can still hear the unique voices of my mom and dad singing this hymn ... and I can still hear that special almost stereo sound of the entire convention singing this hymn too.
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Post by bulsi on Apr 18, 2018 10:57:35 GMT -5
I always loved that hymn where some of the words were something like " .... I see in each a destiny ..." " ... let me choose as I would choose When time and seasons are no more ..." I haven't heard that hymn since childhood and I'm wondering if someone in the truth wrote it? ithascome.bravehost.com/hymns.html
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