Posted on 06/23/2013 12:04:29 PM PDT by notaliberal
During Mass this morning priest's homily was about religious freedom. We also prayed for religious freedom and the unborn and at the end of Mass "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" was beautifully sung by a baritone.
Mine eyes have seen the glory
Of the coming of the Lord
He is trampling out the vintage
Where the grapes of wrath are stored
He has loosed the fateful lightening
Of His terrible swift sword
His truth is marching on
I have seen him in the watch-fires
Of a hundred circling camps
They have builded him an altar
In the evening dews and damps
I can read his righteous sentence
By the dim and flaring lamps
His day is marching on
I have read a fiery gospel
Writ in burnish'd rows of steel
As ye deal with my condemners
So with you my grace shall deal
Let the hero, born of woman
Crush the serpent with his heel
Since God is marching on
Glory, glory, hallelujah
Glory, glory, hallelujah
Glory, glory, hallelujah
Our God is marching on
He has sounded form the trumpet
That shall never call retreat
He is sifting out the hearts of men
Before His judgment-seat
Oh, be swift, my soul
To answer him be jubilant, my feet
Our God is marching on
Glory, glory, hallelujah
Glory, glory, hallelujah
Glory, glory, hallelujah
Our God is marching on
In the beauty of the lilies
Christ was born across the sea
With a glory in his bosom
That transfigures you and me
As he died to make men holy
Let us live to make men free
While God is marching on
Glory, glory, hallelujah
Glory, glory, hallelujah
Glory, glory, hallelujah Our God is marching on
Somebody was thinking. It’s an appropriate choice a week before the 150th anniversary of Gettysburg.
The Battle Hymn is a wicked song written by a trinity-denying Unitarian. No Christian, particularly a Southern Christian, should have anything to do with that song.
One Hymn That Should Be Banished From The Church
http://5ptsalt.com/2010/12/06/one-hymn-that-should-be-banished-from-the-church/
Should A Christian Sing the Battle Hymn?
http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=11200617523
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You are so blessed to have a Pastor who doesn’t live in fear of the government or offending libs.
I am an adoptive South Carolinian. Years ago, the preacher at my church chose to sing the Battle Hymn of the Republic during the service. I walked out on him. When he asked me, afterwards, I told him he ought to be ashamed of himself, a native Georgian!
The last time I heard the Battle Hymn of the Republic in church was on a 4th of July. Totally inappropriate choice, especially considering I live in a part of the country that suffered from the Northern aggressors. A few people walked out.
Poor choice. With all that your learning about this goverment you should be singing. DIXIELAND. We are just now seeing what the South had been trying say. Get your heads out of the goverment history books. Just because the South was defeated by superior numbers does not mean it was wrong. What was said in the 1850’s is proving prophetic.
Amen, FRiend! I’ll never sing the Battle Hymn!
Game. Set. Match.
No idea what that is supposed to mean.
I noticed that you included the third verse:
I have read a fiery gospelDid the singer perform it?
Writ in burnish'd rows of steel:
"As ye deal with my condemners
So with you my grace shall deal.
Let the hero, born of woman
Crush the serpent with his heel,
Since God is marching on."
This verse, inspired by Genesis 3:15 has been omitted from most hymnals--in fact, I have never even seen it in a hymnal, and I have never heard it performed--apparently, it's too politically correct for these times. Yet I see it as being essential to the song's message.
You want the police state that it would have required to keep half your population in bondage , huh?
A Christian analysis of verse 3 from the link,I posted above:
Verse 3
This verse is not included in many hymn books, yet is part of the song and is vital to an understanding of the meaning of the song.
“I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel:
‘As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal;
Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel,
Since God is marching on.’”;
The “burnished rows of steel”; refers to the sun reflecting off the gun barrels and the fixed bayonets of the army.[xxiii] The Gospel is never written in guns and bayonets and the implements of war. The Gospel of salvation is written in the hearts of those who have believed the message of Jesus Christ and been transformed by the power of that Gospel.
“Contemners” is an old English word which means those who treat one with contempt. This line says that to the degree that we kill those who despise God, God will extend grace to us! The Bible never links God’s grace to killing those who disagree with us. This bloody kind of hate-mongering is absolutely not part of the Christian message. In fact, the opposite is true. If we willfully disobey God’s Word by killing those with whom we have disagreements, there is not likely much grace for such willful sin. “Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it?”; (Romans 6:1-2).
“Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel”; is a misquoted reference to Genesis 3:15: “And I will put enmity between you and the woman, And between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, And you shall bruise His heel.”;[xxiv] Once again, Howe turned the Union Army into “Christ” and the Confederate Army into “Satan.” This is an outright heresy and a total abuse of the Scriptures, which Howe used to support her own political agenda. At the time of the war, there were just as many true Christians in the South as in the North, yet the one reserved the moral high ground to call itself “Christ” and the other “Satan.” This is not remotely Christian. It is just plain worldly and a pagan way of thinking.
I see “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”—which is not really a hymn, since it doesn’t directly address a deity—as being a gospel song aimed at inspiring Christians to engage in spiritual warfare against the forces of Satan.
Same tune.
John Brown’s body lies a-mouldering in the grave; (3X)
His soul’s marching on!
(Chorus)
Glory, glory, hallelujah! Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah! his soul’s marching on!
He’s gone to be a soldier in the army of the Lord! (3X)
His soul’s marching on!
(Chorus)
John Brown’s knapsack is strapped upon his back! (3X)
His soul’s marching on!
(Chorus)
His pet lambs will meet him on the way; (3X)
They go marching on!
(Chorus)
They will hang Jeff Davis to a sour apple tree! (3X)
As they march along!
(Chorus)
Now, three rousing cheers for the Union; (3X)
As we are marching on!
(From the Library of Congress:[35])
How about “I’m a good old Rebel?”
That’s how I see it, too.
It would not have survived very much longer even in the South. Besides how could the North take the moral ground when they were still slaving into South America under the American flag up into 1864 according to British Navy. Nothing like marching into the South with money from slave trade gingling in your pockets.
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