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Battle Hymm of the Republic
YouTube ^ | 6/30/2019 | First Dallas Choir & Orchestra

Posted on 12/10/2019 3:05:35 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz

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To: PAR35

That was something else. Excellent find!


21 posted on 12/11/2019 4:43:11 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (When you think about what the left is doing to America, think no further than Cloward-Piven)
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People died to make men free. To say "live" demeans that fact. I lost at least one ancestor (in the 31st Ohio Volunteer Infantry killed at Chickamauga). Excerpts from a letter to his father from a cousin in the same regiment: "There were 200 lost in our regiment, killed wounded or missing. We are expecting a fight here tomorrow. ... Though I can tell you something else, he fought like a man who had the good of his country at heart."
22 posted on 12/11/2019 7:20:21 AM PST by Hiddigeigei ("Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish," said Dionysus - Euripides)
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"To say "live" demeans that fact."

I think you are right about that but I always thought the change was for the hymnals in the 20th century. I have seen it used in every church I know. The lyrics can be applied to any moral crusade. The song misuses Bible passages which have real meanings, as though they were only metaphors for Abolitionism. Howe was a Unitarian, though raised a Calvinist, and that is of course the way that Unitarians use the Bible to this day.

Many if not all the songs in church, are sung with no thought about the real meaning of the lyrics. Baptists use it as if it were about the fulfillment of end-time prophecy. Some use it as if it were about soul winning evangelism. Some use it on July 4th as if it were a patriotic song. In all these cases the word "live" rather than "die" seems to make more sense to them.

I am fond of correcting the doctrine of the lyrics in my own church song leading. "Let's sing number 302, "In the Bleak Mid-winter". Of course we all know that Jesus was born in the spring, but it certainly was a deep cold winter spiritually. Standing together as we sing!"

23 posted on 12/11/2019 8:00:42 AM PST by BDParrish ( Please correct me! I never learned anything from anybody who already agreed with me.)
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“During President Reagan’s funeral, it took the mourner on a journey from sadness to prayer to hope.”

He also had it song during his inaugural parade. He had to wipe his eyes on national television.


24 posted on 12/11/2019 5:04:49 PM PST by fproy2222
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To: Political Junkie Too

Thank you for those links, PJT!


25 posted on 07/03/2020 9:52:43 PM PDT by nutmeg (Mega prayers for Rush Limbaugh)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

Bookmark!


26 posted on 07/03/2020 9:54:43 PM PDT by TianaHighrider (God bless President Trump)
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