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Billy Graham’s
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My Answer
DEAR DR. GRAHAM: I have a lot of admit that I enjoy them. If I become a
habits that I suppose are bad for me, but I Christian, do you think God will make me
give up these things?--B.D.H.
DEAR B D.H.: Yes, God’s will might
well be that you give up these habits. You
do not indicate what they are, but if they
are things which are not helpful to you and
in tact hurt you they do not honor God
and should not be a part of your life.
Let me be clear about one thing: when
you come to jesus Christ, you are in effect
asking him to take control of your life and
be your Lord. You are acknowledging that
you need help, and he alone can help you.
The call of Christ is a call to follow him,
and that means we must be willing to turn
our backs on ways of living that are not
pleasing to him and allow him to direct us
and change us. Jesus said bluntly, “If
anyone would come after me, he must
deny himself and take up his cross daily
and follow me’’ (Luke 9:23).
But before you turn away from Christ
and decide you want to keep on living
without him, I want you to consider several
very important questions. First, are you
sure these habits will give you happiness
and peace in the years ahead? Look around
you. Everywhere you will find people who
have given themselves to all kinds of
habitr and pleasures--but they have come
to the end of the road and discovered they
are empty and unhappy. What makes you
think you will be the exception?
Also, I have to tell you frankly that
turning your back on Christ will not only
harm you in this life but will have eternal
consequences as well. Some day you will
die and go into eternity. What are a few
years of so-called pleasure here worth,
when compared with an eternity separated
from God? Jesus said, “What good is it for
a man to gain the whole world, and yet
lose or forfeit his very self?’’ (Luke 9:25).
Christ came to give you life-far greater
than anything you will ever find without
him. '
History of Hymns
by William J. Reynolds
Comey ye disconsolate y
where *er ye languishy
Come to the mercy seat,
ferfently kneel; Here bring
your wounded heartSy here
tell your anguish: Earth has
no sorrow that heav'n
cannot heal.
These comforting lines were written by Thomas
Moore, an Irish Roman Catholic poet, in 1816. Born
in Dublin, where his father was a grocer and
wine-men hunt, he studied law in London, and briefly
held a government post in Bermuda.
In London he championed the Irish cause in the
highest levels of society in the early 19th century.
Throughhis disarmingly pleasant personality and the
beauty of his songs, he greatly aided the Irish cause
and became a national hero as had no other poet in
Irish history.
Among his more popular songs were “The Last
Rose of Summer” and “Believe Me If All Those
Fndearing Young Charms,” choice examples of his
poetic skills and imagination.
In the literary community of his day, he was a
friend of Byron and Shelley, and his own literary
publications brought him fame and fortune.
London's leading literary critic. Lord Jeffrey, so
bitterly criticized Moore’s “Odes and Epistles,” in
1806, that Moore challenged his critic to a duel .lust
as they were ready to fire, officers intervened and
prevented bloodshed.
Moore became a favorite in London society circles.
Ills musii'al gifts, his charming .social graces, and his
sparkling wit made him a welcomed guest in th«‘
most evclusivt' gatherings.
The imaginative lyric characteristic of Moore’s
writing is evident in the hymn. Here is poetic
expression of unusual quality and typical of the
romantic' poetry of his day.
I he biblical imagery in the reference to the “mercy
seat ” may be found in Exodus 2,'); 17-22. If was the
gold covering over the ark of the covenant and was
regarded as the place of access to (iod
NEX I V\EEK’S HYMN: “() the D.-ep, Deep Love of
Jesus”.
Cash
Continued from page 1
Four months later shortly before midnight Pete
McKnight’s phone rang in Charlotte. It still pains him
to tell what happened when he picked it up:
“It was Mary Cash, calling from Mexico City. Just
moments before Cash’s body had been found in a
Reforma Hotel room, hanging from a bathroom door
hook. She asked me to notify his parents in Shelby
and, through a friend, her mother.
“I was dazed. Reveling in national acclaim for his
hew book. Cash had gone to Mexico on a Guggenheim
fellowship and planned to try writing a Southern
novel. Now that prodigious intellect was stilled
forever, and 1 had lost a close friend.
To sum up Cash, unlike other writers such as
Hemingway and O’Hara, did not learn to write well by
working at a newspaper; in fact, his periodic style,
laden with adjectives, would be anathema to modern
newspapers. “Can you imagine trying to edit Cash’s
prose on deadline?” asked a chief editor at the
present-day Observer. He shook his head. '
Instead, newspapers provided Cash with the
emotional acceptance, financial security, and sense of
place in society that he needed in order to write The
Mind of the South. Newspapers gave him friends and
a wife, whom he had met when she was working
part-time at the News. As Pete McKnight says:
' ‘To write a great novel one m'ust live. In the first six
months of his happy marriage. Cash was just
beginning to live.”
Dr. William J. Reynolds is on the faculty of the
school of Music at Southwestern Baptist Theological
Seminary in Fort Worth. He is immediate past
president of the Hymn Society of America and was
formerly secretary of the Church Music Department
of the Southern Baptist Sunday school board. A
lecturer, musician and composer, he has written
several books on hymns and was general editor of
Baptist Hymnal.
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