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
FIFY
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.
The only thing “gospel” about it is a false gospel.
Here is what the Apostle Paul says about anyone teaching a false gospel:
“But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.As we said before, so say I now again, if any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.” (Galatians 1:8-9)
Please read the historical and biblical analysis of the song I linked above.
Here’s one you’ll undoubtedly like:
THE GOOD OLD REBEL
Oh, I’m a good old rebel
Now thats just what I am
And for this yankee nation
I do no give a damn.
I’m glad I fought against her
I only wish we’d won
I ain’t asked any pardon
For anything I’ve done.
I hates the Yankee nation
And everything they do
I hates the Declaration
Of Independence, too.
I hates the glorious union
‘Tis dripping with our blood
I hates the striped banner
And fought it all I could.
I rode with Robert E. Lee
For three years there about
Got wounded in four places
And I starved at Point Lookout.
I caught the rheumatism
Campin’ in the snow
But I killed a chance of Yankees
And I’d like to kill some more.
Three hundred thousand Yankees
Is stiff in southern dust
We got three hundred thousand
Before they conquered us.
They died of southern fever
And southern steel and shot
I wish they was three million
Instead of what we got.
I can’t take up my musket
And fight ‘em down no more
But I ain’t a-goin’ to love them
Now that is certain sure.
And I don’t want no pardon
For what I was and am
I won’t be reconstructed
And I do not give a damn.
Oh, I’m a good old rebel
Now that’s just what I am
And for this Yankee nation
I do no give a damn.
I’m glad I fought against her
I only wish we’d won
I ain’t asked any pardon
For anything I’ve done.
I ain’t asked any pardon
For anything I’ve done...
It means you nailed it
yep
I like this better........
Mikey got with Sharon,
Sharon got Sheriee
She was sharin’ Sharon’s outlook
on the topic of disease
Mikey had a facial scar
and Bobby was a racist
They were all in love with dyin
‘ they were doin’ it in Texas
Tommy played piano
like a kid out in the rain
Then he lost his leg in Dallas
he was dancin’ with the train
They were all in love with dyin’
they were drinkin’ from a fountain
That was pouring like an avalanche
coming down the mountain
Some will die in hot pursuit
and fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
while sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
and drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
coming down the mountain
Another Mikey took a knife
while arguing in traffic
Flipper died a natural death
he caught a nasty virus
Then there was the ever-present
football player rapist
They were all in love with dyin’
they were doin’ it in Texas
Paulie caught a bullet
but it only hit his leg
While it should have been a better shot
he got him in the head
They were all in love with dyin’
they were drinkin’ from a fountain
That was pouring like an avalanch
e coming down the mountain
(chorus)
I don’t mind the sun sometimes
the images it shows
I can taste you on my lips
and smell you in my clothes
Cinnamon and sugar-y
and softly spoken lies
You never know just how you look
through other people’s eyes
(Pepper by Butthole Surfers)
Thank you, FRiend.
Nonsense. The Confederate government was even more authoritarian than the North. It's pretty to paint the South as freedom-loving, but it ain't accurate.
Nobody pays attention to this reconstructed BS history anymore. You are either a federal Boot licker or you are not.
MARCHING THROUGH GEORGIA
Bring the good old bugle, boys, we’ll sing another song
Sing it with a spirit that will start the world along
Sing it as we used to sing it, 50,000 strong
While we were marching through Georgia.
Hurrah! Hurrah! we bring the jubilee!
Hurrah! Hurrah! the flag that makes you free!
So we sang the chorus from Atlanta to the sea
While we were marching through Georgia.
How the darkeys shouted when they heard the joyful sound
How the turkeys gobbled which our commissary found
How the sweet potatoes even started from the ground
While we were marching through Georgia.
Yes and there were Union men who wept with joyful tears,
When they saw the honored flag they had not seen for years;
Hardly could they be restrained from breaking forth in cheers,
While we were marching through Georgia.
“Sherman’s dashing Yankee boys will never reach the coast!”
So the saucy rebels said and ‘twas a handsome boast
Had they not forgot, alas! to reckon with the Host
While we were marching through Georgia.
So we made a thoroughfare for freedom and her train,
Sixty miles in latitude, three hundred to the main;
Treason fled before us, for resistance was in vain
While we were marching through Georgia.
Attacking the civilian population. That was brave. A army many times larger than the Souths got their as*+* handed to them.
Brave, like the gallant Southern gentlemen who burned Chambersburg, Pa. in 1864
A army many times larger than the Souths got their as*+* handed to them
What do you mean? Sherman's soldiers were never defeated.
Yea sucks to be a paid back. This was once and was not a policy of the Southern Army as it was with the North.
http://www.angelfire.com/wv/wasec9/chambersburg.html
He also avoided a confrontation with the Southern Army instead inflicting casualties on Woman, Children, and old men.
Heh. I'm no "boot-licker". Please go through my postings.
This isn't revisionism. The Confederate government believed in government interference in citizens' lives as much if not more than the North.
We can romanticize their stand for state's rights, but that doesn't make them into freedom-lovers.
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