me too!

For mother Russia comrades, do not turn your back on her!

@@orthodoxtemplar7924 VICTORY OR DEATH!

​@@ALph4cro STUKA!!! TAKE COVER!!!!

He was my great great grandfather. Unfortunately through translation "Man" which used to mean humankind, now means "male" and the hymn comes off as being sexist. Also, Christian Theology tells us that there are many times when we get to decide, not just once. Still gets dragged out at a lot of family funerals--and it is one of my favorites James Lowell Bowditch.

@@HabakkukB1 In point of fact, "man" and "mankind" never changed its definition. According to the dictionary definition, the ARCHAIC usage was to distinguish men from women, but no less than the Oxford Dictionary lists the word as meaning "human beings collectively; the human race." It is only those who have accepted the PC movement and their insane desire to redefine words that have allowed this to be said to be a sexist term. Even the usage of "humankind" is an homage to that PC movement, which is sad. There was no need to come up with a new term - only a need to have the courage to not accept the redefinition of language as dictated by a few.

This is adopted to my alma mater’s school hymn. It is a wisdom and education about temptation and the kingdom of God.

@@TheDoctor1225 The Doc Speaketh Truth! James, his great great grandbaby, has dropped the torch in the weakly fluttering wispy winds of political correctness.

I've met two relative on here now!

His name was James Russell Lowell. I'm his great, great grandson--James Lowell Bowditch

@@HabakkukB1 Wow, nice to meet you, and the last name, another Unitarian of fame! I'm scripting a documentary on all of them right now.

“Truths that are unpleasant to most Christians today” Like how Jesus Christ is God incarnate, and literally died and literally resurrected? I did not know that the author of this hymn was a Unitarian, so I find it pretty ironic that the movement from which he hails falters to hold the most elemental truths.

@@ErikNilsen1337 You mentioned that joke called Unitarian-Universalist...they went way off the grid a long time ago, and are now even thinking of giving up one of the oldest Unitarian/Radical Reformation ideas of "an aversion to authority" and no creeds. The aim, like so many. is to set up hierarchical style church where there is an accepted profession of faith, and any questions...your "cancelled" or thrown out. They have hitched their wagon to the "woke" and the Democratic party, bad choice, the conservatives are going to win out and re-establish the "ancien regime" or an image of the original beast. [papacy, church state combo] I am one of those rare creatures who is an old school, traditional Unitarian, like many of our founders. You'll find that hymn in your SDA hymnal by the way, and pretty well as written. Adventism's main leaders came out of the "Christian Connextion" Unitarian movement, which along with the Unitarians founded Antioch College and made the father of modern public school ed Horace Mann its firsts president. EGW borrowed a lot from the educational reforms of both the radical reformation and the Unitarians, especially Jefferson. We could talk all night about the SDA/Unitarian links! As for the unpleasant truths, well the trinity doctrine is pure papal, and Greek mythology and enforced more strictly then a departure from the Mithraic day of the sun. Thanks for the reply Erik.

It is beautiful and the words are rich, not many Churches sing this hymn

Yes. I cry when I hear either. Both are spectacular for the heart of the Gospel. This one especially for those fearing martyrdom... He stands watch in the shadows.

Can I ask for the context of this comment? It says it was posted "1 year ago" but that doesn't help me narrow it down.

@@tylarjackson7928 As I recall, it was Dec 2019 when I came across this. Congressmen and senators were faced with the decision about whether to listen to the impeachment evidence, or to waffle under the pressures of politics. When the momment came to side with "truth or falsehood" clearly, the Republican Senators waffled. Had they voted differently, Mr Pence would have become President and, since he had remained untainted by the Ukraine weapons scandal, there is a good chance that he would have been elected as President in 2020. Instead, the senators bowed to the falsehood, followed by the falsehood about the 2020 election and the falsehood of rebelling against the government--and many today continue to bow to this "god" and, three years later, they still slavishly seek to serve him.

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Yeah, I wish they had sung the 2nd verse, although all of them are fraught with heavy truths, but the 2nd is very powerful, and is a sort of central point that completes the song. The 2nd verse speak strongly to the individual and their role in the struggle of darkness vs light. As a historian who has studied religion pretty intensely, in the progress of restoring Christianity and purging it of its corruptions picked up along its journey to its current mostly monstrous forms, yeah, that verse is important and relevant for these times as it was back then when Lowell wrote it. This was the time when Thoreau was sitting in jail and writing Civil Disobedience, when the abolitionists were resisting the Mexican War of 1846 which was being fought to expand slavery. The Unitarians were a part of the Radical Reformation as opposed to the Magisterial Reformers like Luther and Calvin who combined their religious ideas with the power of the state to continue the fine old tradition of persecuting those who do not agree with your theology. Calvin burned, with a slow fire, Michael Servetus, the Unitarian, for his "heresy" and opposition to Calvinism. "The Presbyterian clergy are the loudest, the most intolerant of all sects; the most tyrannical and ambitious, ready at the word of the law-giver, if such a word could now be obtained, to put their torch to the pile, and to rekindle in this virgin hemisphere the flame in which their oracle, Calvin, consumed the poor Servetus, because he could not subscribe to the proposition of Calvin, that magistrates have a right to exterminate all heretics to the Calvinistic creed! They pant to re-establish by law that holy inquisition which they can now only infuse into public opinion" ~Thomas Jefferson, Works, Vol.iv.,p.322 Other radical reformers would suffer at the hands of the new Protestant popedoms. King James I [remember his bible?] was such a persecutor and a sexual pervert, who said concerning the Puritans that he "..would harry them out of the land" if they did not conform. Harry them out he did and New England was founded, and from that the first colony advocating religious freedom, Roger Williams and Rhode Island. Now the seed s of civil and religious liberty were planted in the New World, and would grow into the first Republic founded on those principles of civil and religious liberty, ideas that came out of the radical reformation and the Age of Reason. The founding heretics [most would be called cultists today or un-ordodox] were from these radical reformation roots and Unitarians. They would continue to be the leaders of reforms in the New World. Joseph Priestly, who like Servetus, was both scientist and theologian, said this, "How glorious, then, is the prospect, the reverse of all the past, which is now opening upon us, and upon the world. Government, we may now expect to see, not only in theory and in books but in actual practice, calculated for the general good, and taking no more upon it than the general good requires, leaving all men the enjoyment of as many of their natural rights as possible, and no more interfering with matters of religion, with men's notions concerning God, and a future state, than with philosophy, or medicine." ~Joseph Priestly OK, I'm on the bully pulpit now, to wrap this up, one of the Unitarian groups, The Christian Connection, who also joined in starting Antioch College which was based on the ideas of Jefferson about education, and whose first president they all picked was Horace Mann, one of America's leading educational reformers and a Unitarian, the Connection would provide a number of the founders of the Seventh-day Adventist movement, taking with them the ideas of the various reforms active at the time in health, a Christianity that challenged the Calvinism and salvation by profession vs a religion that was worthless unless it changed the believer, educational reform, and even equality in society, [abolitionists] the idea of the Great Controversy of the ages, even non-consciousness in death, etc, not to mention an anti-trinitarian belief,... now you know where that came from in the early Advent pioneers. Anyway, in its beginnings Adventism was a combination of Millerite teachings and recycled Boston Unitarianism. I'm also aware of the controversies that have raged in the SDA movement over the past years, and how those who seem more like their Unitarian forebears and those who want to be more like the magisterial reformers of the reformation, have been at war, with a solution being preached that loyalty to leadership is a pillar of faith, and go along to get along sort of attitude, just obey and the great Adventist remnant will ascend to Heaven together, amen. The de-evolution backwards from the radical reformation has been sad to watch, but I will wrap this all up with an observation from the great historian of the Enlightenment. My final thought is this, I'm surprised that this hymn is still even in the hymnal. The modern Unitarians have gutted the song to nothing in their's, and I can see where that pesty 2nd verse would rub some wrong in the SDA leadership who have even declared in Federal court that their own popedom is in harmony with the Roman one [learned about that in law school] “The theologian may indulge the pleasing task of describing Religion as she descended from Heaven, arrayed in her native purity. A more melancholy duty is imposed on the historian. He must discover the inevitable mixture of error and corruption which she contracted in a long residence upon Earth, among a weak and degenerate race of beings.” ~Edward Gibbon, The Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire, XV Anyway, still a beautiful performance kids of that wonderful song, and with such a historically amazing back drop!

I think every verse of our hymns should be sung. We do great injustice to the message if we leave out a verse. Beautiful.

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You are so right in these comments. As I write we are in the middle of a great battle about a stolen election. I sent this clip out to many people last night.....may God have mercy on our souls if we let this baby-killing, cheating, corrupt regime take over our country.