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Battle Hymn of the Republic (Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory) - story behind the hymn
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- čas přidán 9. 08. 2023
- A favorite classic hymn with roots in the American civil war. A liberal (for the day) woman wrote these stirring words about the second coming of Christ, using lots of imagery from Revelation. What a powerful and moving song! Hear the history, an analysis of the lyrics, and a performance of all 6 original verses on today's episode..
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Sources used for for today's video:
- Kenneth W. Osbeck. 101 Hymn Stories. 1982. Kregal Publications: Grand Rapids
- John Mclelland. The Ambassador Book of Great Hymn Stories. 1994. Ambassador Productions Ltd: Belfast
- www.hymnary.org
LYRICS:
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 hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword:
His truth is marching on.
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
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.
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
His truth is marching on.
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.
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
His truth is marching on.
He has sounded forth 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 die to make men free,
While God is marching on.
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Our God is marching on.
He is coming like the glory of the morning on the wave,
He is Wisdom to the mighty, He is honor to the brave,
So the world shall be His footstool, and the soul of Time His slave,
Our God is marching on.
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Our God is marching on!
“As he died to men holy, let us fight to make men free”
I used to get the shakes before a combat mission. But as soon as we were airborne, I was a crewchief on a helo, singing this hymn would make them go away.
I don’t know if it was just the jitters or what ever. I can tell you that this hymn was my anthem.
I am much older now, every time I hear this hymn I weep. I thank God for my life, more importantly, I thank God for the salvation of my soul.
What a wonderful testimony to the power of God's word. I often cry when singing particular hymns, but not till now with this one, thanks to what you say here.
Thanks for sharing. Now comes a prayer of complete surrender using caps as emphasis to help others find THE WAY AT GOD'S MERCY (HIS LOVE GIFT IN JESUS CHRIST) since there is room at the cross for you.
On a balcony of space STEPPED A PURE AND HOLY GOD. IN AWESOME SOLITUDE YOU STOOD ALONE. Not one faint star to give YOU light; just endless darkness, it was blackest night. But somehow in the darkness YOU COULD SEE.
YOU SAW mountains high and lofty, YOU SAW valleys lush and green. YOU SAW babbling brooks, and wildflowers grow, YOU EVEN HEARD a robin sing. Then through YOUR COMPASSION STANDING OUT THERE IN YOUR TOMORROW, YOU SAW forum's visitors, their families and friends. 🥰
YOU SAW them as sinners (missing the mark when aiming to solve a problem then creating another resulting in their weaknesses prevailing causing guilt of wrong doing) because there is no intrinsic righteousness in any of us due to Adam’s sin. YOU SAW them as they grew from a baby into adulthood due to YOUR HANDS OF MERCY. 🥰 YOU SAW them pursuing a career path for the purpose of obtaining the gains of the world not realizing that it is a loss compared to what YOU DID on the cross. YOU SAW them working long and laboring hard to receive justification by grace even though YOU stated, "This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent."(John 6:29 KJV) YOU SAW the unwillingness to accept YOUR PLAN OF SALVATION THROUGH YOUR SON JESUS CHRIST. YOU SAW them living with the guilt of committing crimes to the heart. YOU SAW them enduring personal crisis. YOU SAW the weight of the burden on their hearts with each tribulation. YOU SAW them seeking comfort from the above mentioned topography, ONE OF THE MANY MARVELS YOUR PERFECT HANDS HAVE MADE. 👏👏👏 YOU SAW their worries about tomorrow.
If their hearts were a window that they could look through, oh the pains and scars they would see. What a cruel fate the skin gives as a mask to the inward pain. But the skin couldn’t cover THE SUFFERING YOUR ONE AND ONLY SON BORED on the cross as PAYMENT for all our sins because HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS ALONE HAD THE MERIT TO MEET THE REQUIREMENTS OF YOUR HOLINESS. Indeed, ONLY HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS IS SUFFICIENT TO SAVE us from this present evil world as evidenced by Mary's song of praise. "And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord, And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour." (Luke 1:46-47 KJV) Awesome thanks to YOUR GREAT PARDON for being easy on the heart. 🥰
They have seen a lot of crazy things done in YOUR NAME. For example, the father of lies futile attempts to make crooked the right ways of the LORD to turn people away from faith in the WORKS OF JESUS CHRIST ALONE. How can anyone bear the thought of his or her life story detracting from the GLORY AND HONOR KNOWN TO BELONG TO CHRIST ALONE? As a consequence, YOU ARE A MYSTERY OF GREAT MYSTERY to them. Despite this conviction, YOU ARE MINDFUL of them as evidenced by the fact that YOUR JUDGEMENT is not speedy, allowing them to pursue the desires of the flesh.
They are aware of hypocrisy in religious assemblies that like to be seen and heard. In addition, secular education teaches that there is no right and wrong, if GOD exists there is no way of relating to HIM, and moral standards shift according to the whims of fashion. Therefore, their minds are conditioned to question everything this world has to offer including “THY POWER THROUGHOUT THE UNIVERSE DISPLAYED.” They have accepted the heavy burden of dealing with the troubles of this life and seek to know another way, YOU THE GREAT COMFORTER TO ALL who did receive YOU as their personal SAVIOR. Still, YOU have shown them NEW MERCY every day with each thought they make and each breath they take.
Unfortunately, like the prodigal son, we are all guilty of wandering far from YOU LORD because the negative experiences of our lives tend to build roadblocks to the TRUTH. As time marches on, JESUS CHRIST HELP them to identify the way, truth, and eternal life (that is YOU). Since to know and follow your SPIRIT is more exciting than any 007 movies, and YOU DELIGHT MAKING the ordinary into extraordinary. As time marches on, JESUS CHRIST MAKE them understand that there is no way around YOUR TRUTH, and that there is something about YOUR NAME. As time marches on, JESUS CHRIST HELP them defeat in their minds what is false in YOUR EYES.
LORD GUIDE their thoughts to know that the path of sin is hard on their hearts for the purpose of crying out to YOU to know the joy, peace of having the heavy burden LIFTED by THE GOD OF PEACE I AM, and ANCHOR their souls in THE HAVEN OF REST. In other words, LORD use the storms in their lives to get a hold of them to trust YOU and believe. In truth, YOU ARE THE JOY that seekest them through pain.
LORD HELP their fainting hearts to believe that YOU, who was slain on the cross over 2000 years ago has the POWER TO CHANGE lives today through the INSTANTANEOUS GREAT FAVOR from GOD to the house of Israel made known in believers by YOU to make YOUR NAME EVERLASTING. 🥰 For as the statue liberates the citizens so the cross liberates the soul. ONLY YOU can calm the trouble waters of the mind when one admits to wanting salvation from one’s sinful nature, JESUS IS LORD, and believes in the heart that GOD RAISED HIM from the dead TO LIFT the heavy burden of sin's guilt away from the heart in accordance to YOUR WORD found in Psalm 51:1-10 KJV. 👏👏👏👏👏👏 O, the wonder of it all to experience within the flesh the feeling of a tree being cut back/pruned in order for it to grow stronger and more beautiful after meditating on the words of said Psalm. 🥰🙌
LORD MAKE them know that ONLY YOUR HOLY SPIRIT, through the experience of a new birth within believers, can prevent the family circle from being broken because THE HOPE OF ETERNAL LIFE YOU HAVE GRANTED means a chapter of their lives is decided. Creation sings the rebirth song for them yearly, through YOUR PROMISE of springtime, giving rise to the idea that by the mention of YOUR NAME flowers grow, and the desert blooms again. 🥰
LORD GUIDE their understanding of words to use to come into YOUR PRESENCE with an honest reverence of WHO YOU ARE to experience the beauty that time can't erase YOUR WISDOM resting on their faces. LORD STRENGTHEN their determination to never waiver in efforts to search for YOU because the wages of sin is too high for anyone to pay. Additionally, THE KING OF KINGS is needed in their hearts to learn how to expand their capacity to love for YOU are LOVE in any language. 🥰 Once they learn to speak it with boldness through YOUR WONDERFUL COUNSELING all the world will hear, and know that LOVE is the language of their hearts. So LORD, KEEP KNOCKING on their doors until they let YOU in to know hardships and struggles will end with a GREAT CELEBRATION WITH YOU. 🥰🙌
If one believes faith cannot be forced, YOU WILL GIVE that individual over to the stubborn heart to follow own counsel which will surely fail him or her to the extent that the punishment will last forever found in Psalms 81 NIV. Given this, I pray that YOU WILL MAKE that person see that this feeling is wasted for a world in which we become strangers as we age, gives us thrills instead of peace, aims to solve a problem but creates another, and unrest surges with each passing generation. Shed some light into their broken hearts for YOU ARE THE GREAT JEHOVAH, THE GOD THAT HEALETH thee.
Lastly, LORD when they call on YOU in earnest prayer to come into their hearts to be born again (repentance manifesting itself in a changed life), I pray that YOU WILL GIVE them the blessed assurance of their salvation because nothing breaks YOUR HEART, or tears YOU apart like when they cry from the trials of the devil who comes to slander, falsely accuse, steal, kill & destroy. Only by drawing nearer to YOU LORD will put them on a path to a glorious one way trip winding upward to YOU where pain is not welcome because the heart will never break anymore. For ONLY YOU UNDERSTANDS our tears since YOU LOOK at the heart, while humans look at the flesh.
O LOVE that will not let them go. When they don't have the strength to try, and have cried all they can cry hear their hearts that need YOU more today than yesterday. Many thanks LORD for speaking TRUTH in our lives TO BLESS those who are not offended by THEE. LET YOUR WILL BE DONE because YOUR LOVE ALONE CONQUERS everything by WAITING for them to cease struggling, and finally surrender to YOUR EMBRACE to learn about YOUR LOVE AND PROMISE TO TAKE CARE of your children exquisitely. 🥰 Since... "at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore"... (Psalms 16:11 KJV), and the nail print for them to know YOU by answering the following question. How did CHRIST LOVE people into a relationship with HIM? 🥰
let us die to make men free...
Sad to say this isn't in our new hymnbooks. I found the Battle Hymn tune, but it has new lyrics (From the very depths of darkness..) which in my opinion are not a patch on the Julia Ward Howe's words. Someone seems to have been purging the hymnbook of anything that can be deemed to be violent or non-woke, even Charles Wesley gets censored in places. But this world is a battleground (between good and evil, not just outside us but also within us) and not a playground and I don't think removing the references to spiritual battle, or the words of previous generations is a good thing.
Are you aware of the fact that Mrs Julia Howe did not believe that Jesus was the only way to God? I thank God this hymn is no longer in hymn books.
“ Not until the Civil War did I officially join the Unitarian church and accept the fact that Christ was merely a great teacher with no higher claim to pre eminence in wisdom goodness and power than any other man.”
Thanks for sharing. HIS TRUTH MARCHES ON as illustrated by the following prayer of complete surrender using caps as emphasis to help others find THE WAY AT GOD'S MERCY (HIS LOVE GIFT IN JESUS CHRIST) since there is room at the cross for you.
On a balcony of space STEPPED A PURE AND HOLY GOD. IN AWESOME SOLITUDE YOU STOOD ALONE. Not one faint star to give YOU light; just endless darkness, it was blackest night. But somehow in the darkness YOU COULD SEE.
YOU SAW mountains high and lofty, YOU SAW valleys lush and green. YOU SAW babbling brooks, and wildflowers grow, YOU EVEN HEARD a robin sing. Then through YOUR COMPASSION STANDING OUT THERE IN YOUR TOMORROW, YOU SAW forum's visitors, their families and friends. 🥰
YOU SAW them as sinners (missing the mark when aiming to solve a problem then creating another resulting in their weaknesses prevailing causing guilt of wrong doing) because there is no intrinsic righteousness in any of us due to Adam’s sin. YOU SAW them as they grew from a baby into adulthood due to YOUR HANDS OF MERCY. 🥰 YOU SAW them pursuing a career path for the purpose of obtaining the gains of the world not realizing that it is a loss compared to what YOU DID on the cross. YOU SAW them working long and laboring hard to receive justification by grace even though YOU stated, "This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent."(John 6:29 KJV) YOU SAW the unwillingness to accept YOUR PLAN OF SALVATION THROUGH YOUR SON JESUS CHRIST. YOU SAW them living with the guilt of committing crimes to the heart. YOU SAW them enduring personal crisis. YOU SAW the weight of the burden on their hearts with each tribulation. YOU SAW them seeking comfort from the above mentioned topography, ONE OF THE MANY MARVELS YOUR PERFECT HANDS HAVE MADE. 👏👏👏 YOU SAW their worries about tomorrow.
If their hearts were a window that they could look through, oh the pains and scars they would see. What a cruel fate the skin gives as a mask to the inward pain. But the skin couldn’t cover THE SUFFERING YOUR ONE AND ONLY SON BORED on the cross as PAYMENT for all our sins because HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS ALONE HAD THE MERIT TO MEET THE REQUIREMENTS OF YOUR HOLINESS. Indeed, ONLY HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS IS SUFFICIENT TO SAVE us from this present evil world as evidenced by Mary's song of praise. "And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord, And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour." (Luke 1:46-47 KJV) Awesome thanks to YOUR GREAT PARDON for being easy on the heart. 🥰
They have seen a lot of crazy things done in YOUR NAME. For example, the father of lies futile attempts to make crooked the right ways of the LORD to turn people away from faith in the WORKS OF JESUS CHRIST ALONE. How can anyone bear the thought of his or her life story detracting from the GLORY AND HONOR KNOWN TO BELONG TO CHRIST ALONE? As a consequence, YOU ARE A MYSTERY OF GREAT MYSTERY to them. Despite this conviction, YOU ARE MINDFUL of them as evidenced by the fact that YOUR JUDGEMENT is not speedy, allowing them to pursue the desires of the flesh.
They are aware of hypocrisy in religious assemblies that like to be seen and heard. In addition, secular education teaches that there is no right and wrong, if GOD exists there is no way of relating to HIM, and moral standards shift according to the whims of fashion. Therefore, their minds are conditioned to question everything this world has to offer including “THY POWER THROUGHOUT THE UNIVERSE DISPLAYED.” They have accepted the heavy burden of dealing with the troubles of this life and seek to know another way, YOU THE GREAT COMFORTER TO ALL who did receive YOU as their personal SAVIOR. Still, YOU have shown them NEW MERCY every day with each thought they make and each breath they take.
Unfortunately, like the prodigal son, we are all guilty of wandering far from YOU LORD because the negative experiences of our lives tend to build roadblocks to the TRUTH. As time marches on, JESUS CHRIST HELP them to identify the way, truth, and eternal life (that is YOU). Since to know and follow your SPIRIT is more exciting than any 007 movies, and YOU DELIGHT MAKING the ordinary into extraordinary. As time marches on, JESUS CHRIST MAKE them understand that there is no way around YOUR TRUTH, and that there is something about YOUR NAME. As time marches on, JESUS CHRIST HELP them defeat in their minds what is false in YOUR EYES.
LORD GUIDE their thoughts to know that the path of sin is hard on their hearts for the purpose of crying out to YOU to know the joy, peace of having the heavy burden LIFTED by THE GOD OF PEACE I AM, and ANCHOR their souls in THE HAVEN OF REST. In other words, LORD use the storms in their lives to get a hold of them to trust YOU and believe. In truth, YOU ARE THE JOY that seekest them through pain.
LORD HELP their fainting hearts to believe that YOU, who was slain on the cross over 2000 years ago has the POWER TO CHANGE lives today through the INSTANTANEOUS GREAT FAVOR from GOD to the house of Israel made known in believers by YOU to make YOUR NAME EVERLASTING. 🥰 For as the statue liberates the citizens so the cross liberates the soul. ONLY YOU can calm the trouble waters of the mind when one admits to wanting salvation from one’s sinful nature, JESUS IS LORD, and believes in the heart that GOD RAISED HIM from the dead TO LIFT the heavy burden of sin's guilt away from the heart in accordance to YOUR WORD found in Psalm 51:1-10 KJV. 👏👏👏👏👏👏 O, the wonder of it all to experience within the flesh the feeling of a tree being cut back/pruned in order for it to grow stronger and more beautiful after meditating on the words of said Psalm. 🥰🙌
LORD MAKE them know that ONLY YOUR HOLY SPIRIT, through the experience of a new birth within believers, can prevent the family circle from being broken because THE HOPE OF ETERNAL LIFE YOU HAVE GRANTED means a chapter of their lives is decided. Creation sings the rebirth song for them yearly, through YOUR PROMISE of springtime, giving rise to the idea that by the mention of YOUR NAME flowers grow, and the desert blooms again. 🥰
LORD GUIDE their understanding of words to use to come into YOUR PRESENCE with an honest reverence of WHO YOU ARE to experience the beauty that time can't erase YOUR WISDOM resting on their faces. LORD STRENGTHEN their determination to never waiver in efforts to search for YOU because the wages of sin is too high for anyone to pay. Additionally, THE KING OF KINGS is needed in their hearts to learn how to expand their capacity to love for YOU are LOVE in any language. 🥰 Once they learn to speak it with boldness through YOUR WONDERFUL COUNSELING all the world will hear, and know that LOVE is the language of their hearts. So LORD, KEEP KNOCKING on their doors until they let YOU in to know hardships and struggles will end with a GREAT CELEBRATION WITH YOU. 🥰🙌
If one believes faith cannot be forced, YOU WILL GIVE that individual over to the stubborn heart to follow own counsel which will surely fail him or her to the extent that the punishment will last forever found in Psalms 81 NIV. Given this, I pray that YOU WILL MAKE that person see that this feeling is wasted for a world in which we become strangers as we age, gives us thrills instead of peace, aims to solve a problem but creates another, and unrest surges with each passing generation. Shed some light into their broken hearts for YOU ARE THE GREAT JEHOVAH, THE GOD THAT HEALETH thee.
Lastly, LORD when they call on YOU in earnest prayer to come into their hearts to be born again (repentance manifesting itself in a changed life), I pray that YOU WILL GIVE them the blessed assurance of their salvation because nothing breaks YOUR HEART, or tears YOU apart like when they cry from the trials of the devil who comes to slander, falsely accuse, steal, kill & destroy. Only by drawing nearer to YOU LORD will put them on a path to a glorious one way trip winding upward to YOU where pain is not welcome because the heart will never break anymore. For ONLY YOU UNDERSTANDS our tears since YOU LOOK at the heart, while humans look at the flesh.
O LOVE that will not let them go. When they don't have the strength to try, and have cried all they can cry hear their hearts that need YOU more today than yesterday. Many thanks LORD for speaking TRUTH in our lives TO BLESS those who are not offended by THEE. LET YOUR WILL BE DONE because YOUR LOVE ALONE CONQUERS everything by WAITING for them to cease struggling, and finally surrender to YOUR EMBRACE to learn about YOUR LOVE AND PROMISE TO TAKE CARE of your children exquisitely. 🥰 Since... "at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore"... (Psalms 16:11 KJV), and the nail print for them to know YOU by answering the following question. How did CHRIST LOVE people into a relationship with HIM? 🥰
No it is the Spirit of the anti-christ.
my Autistic daughters favorite song hymn. Though she can not read she really can not carry on a conversation she by gods grace is saved and lives for the moment not worrying about human trappings . She loves this song .
Thank you for the history behind the song. This brought memories back from singing this as a child. It brings me to tears now as Gods child. Be blessed Brother. 🙏🏼🙏🏼
Are you aware of the fact that Mrs Julia Howe , who wrote the Battle Hymn, did not believe that Jesus was the only way to God?
This was one of my two favorite hymns as a child. The other was "Holy, holy, holy Lord God Almighty." It was great to hear this story!
❤ singing this hymn stirs my soul
This brings back so many memories. My uncle was a pastor who is now with the Lord, but in December when all the family gathered and we went we church, this is one of the hymns we sang and I have always been aware of power of God's truth and looking to Revelation 19 and imagining what we will see and experience. Our God is indeed marching on.
👏🏻🙌🏿👌🥰
Thanks for sharing. Can relate as evidenced by the following sentences delineating how we use music to stir up faith. The negative influences of this world are designed to make our heart sick through emotional & physical pain resulting in a given person turning to music as one source of comfort to the body. The painful realty of this existence gives rise to the birth of music in two forms, earthly & HEAVENLY. Earthly music speaks to the experiences of this world through the singer-song writer’s eyes. Oftentimes drug use (i.e. alcohol, smokes, marijuana, cocaine, opioids, benzos and propofol to name a few) is intertwined with the survival of an artist to deal with the pressure of performing in order to stay relevant in the music industry, and to serve as fuel for creativity. As a result, music celebrities develop a tendency to sin against their body, through excessive drug use, for not measuring up to or to satisfy the demands of their music. Any earthly joy they experience is darkened by the heavy burden of performing and the loss of privacy.
The end users of their music become fans because the lyrics are relatable and the sound of the singer’s voice & rhythm helps them cope with the pains of this reality. Unfortunately, this band aid approach is only a time out from the hurt and in the meantime we are fortifying its wall with painful memories waiting in line. Who can save us from wounds that are silent, wordless and cruel all the while tearing us apart inch by inch on the inside, which could radically accelerate the demise of the human body? I will use caps as emphasis to show the honest reverence for GOD'S SOVEREIGNTY when writing about HEAVENLY music in the paragraphs below.
That INVINCIBLE DIVINE be our HEAVENLY FATHER, WHO THROUGH HIS SON’S MISSION HAS INSPIRED believers to write songs that sing of HIS LIFE GIVING LOVE to deal with emotional & physical pain, economic instability, mortality and the emotional instability of others with the motive of winning over souls for HIS KINGDOM. The melody & theme of HEAVENLY music is hateful and intolerable to the devil, a spirit which causes us to be blinded of the effects of sin and is responsible for the woes of this world such as melancholy, anguish, tribulation and trial. These agitations of the soul create a heavy burden for the lost and could lead him or her to be hostile of songs that sing about GOD’S GLORY. This makes it clear that we cannot win the spiritual battle by our own strength. Moreover, on earth the devil has no equal.
GOD has provided us with the ONE WHO CAN AND WILL LIFT the heavy burden of sin's guilt from a given sinner's heart if he or she (through faith) would open their understanding to Psalms (starting with the focus on Psalms 51:1-10 KJV), and hymns/songs giving praise to HIM for the purpose of being persuaded, converted and healed by the HOLY SPIRIT from within by transforming your body/temple into a meeting place for you and the KING OF THE AGES to commune as friends through the born again experience (repentance manifesting itself in a changed life). It is only here that the fears of tomorrow will diminish, the blessed assurance is given that you are HIS and HE LIVES. Once the blessed assurance is known in prayer (through the confession of wanting salvation from one’s sinful nature, combine with admitting that JESUS CHRIST is LORD and believing in one’s heart that GOD raised HIM from the dead to deliver us from sin's guilt) the world can never take it away because the world didn’t give it to you.
This is a fantastic hymn! I've sung it my whole life. I've always understood it in the context of our civil war. The "watch fires of a hundred circling camps" is a reference to encamped soldiers as evening comes. "The trumpet that shall never sound retreat" is a reference to the bugle calls that were used in the military. (I believe "Taps" was what was played as the flag was lowered in the evening. We hear it at military funerals today. "Reveille" was used to wake the camp. I understand that 'retreat' was another such bugle call.) "Let us die to make men free" I've understood to mean that the soldiers fighting to free people from slavery were willing to give their lives in that cause. I'd be happy to be corrected if anything is not accurate. The message is stirring even if not in reference to the civil war. Thank you for sharing!
You are correct.
That was awesome... most excellent
I remember for 9/11 they sung this at the National Cathedral in Washington DC with US Navy. It was the most moving rendition I've ever heard. London also sang a beautiful rendition. Stirs our soul and brings tears when you sing those words.
Greetings from Lakeland, FL.
My mother was from Massachusetts and was born in early 1900s. This song was my lullaby. We heard it often growing up in the DC area among all the military concerts and I sang it in school concerts in both High School and College. This song has traveled with me throughout my life.
Thank you, Luke, for bringing these hymns to life for a new generation. Understanding the historical context is so important and you do it so well.
Blessings on your head!
This is amazing. Always have loved this song since I was little. Never knew this. Thank You Jesus! Thank You for sharing this. This actually is a timely word for me today. Glory Glory Hallelujah, Our God is marching on! His truth is marching on!
Rousing... Remember singing this as a child in church...am now 79. (80) on September 1st.....Lord willing. ..now of course through the years and in these latter years in the Word understand more of what this hymn is teaching😊
Thank you Luke for the beautiful way you tell the story . I am from India and I remember hearing this song 40 yrs back in church . Very happy to hear the history of this song. This my uncle was singing for us in the Sunday school. The words that are so intense it speaks so much Truly this is a wake up call.
very satisfying presentation of this hymn. Let your gentleness be known unto all men, the Lord is at hand, comes to mind to express how Luke is
Praise be to God. Thanks for sharing. I was really inspired. 'Glory, Glory hallelujah indeed ❤
Sang this every day at vacation bible school for about 5 years as a kid.
Thank you again, Luke! I have great memories of playing flute for this song with my full, high school orchestra.....a beautiful, majestic arrangement that I shall never forget! Tonight listening to the truth that God still marches on spite of the wars raging on Earth, reminded me to keep trusting His will for my life....we will win the victory in the end !!!❤
My fondest memory of this hymn is being a member of a hundred voice church choir singing the Wilhouskey arrangement.
Thank You! 🙏🙏🙏💖
I HEARD THIS SONG IN MY HEAD AS I WOKE UP THIS MORNING, I never knew it. I only ever heard the chorus, and the instrumental version. ..And to hear the meaning is exciting. God wants us to KNOW and be ENCOURAGED. WOW, WOW, WOW!! GOD IS AMAZING AND FAITHFUL!
Our God is marching on, in restitution, restoration and COMING ON THE CLOUD..!!
Your singing was so beautiful. The singing of this glorious ole hymn has always touched my heart; and, when played at a military or patriotic occasion has brought tears to my eyes. As you sang the last verse, however, I must say that I have never heard those words included in the singing of the hymn ever. I, for one, like the traditional words sung as they were written. Thank you for sharing your marvelous. gift with all of us.
THANK you, Luke this/these are so up lifting.🥰
I've stumbled upon your channel. and I love to read and hear the stories of these great hymns. thank you. So far, I've watched softly & tenderly, and my favorite, Turn your eyes upon Jesus; and another fave, this one, battle hymn of the republic. Thank you Luke and may The Lord bless you and your family.
I have great memories singi g this song in the third grade it was my favorite of all belting out the words i always felt Gods presence with excitement and much joy
Thanks Luke,a wonderful presentation.❤ , redbaron Chattanooga TN USA
I just wanted to thank you for keeping these songs alive and I believe that the history behind them is important and it's sad that Americans are letting go the history of this U.S.States. I always enjoyed history and so I'm really enjoying your presentations. Thank you again and I'm praying for you and your family that you continue the history of all of these songs, GOD bless you 😊🙏✝️☮️🕎🇺🇸🇮🇱🇬🇧🇨🇦🇮🇪
Wow. I remember in,2005. I cannot forget. I was at working in the kitchen and whistling this tune and a true southern boy(awesome guy) walked by and laughed then asked me why am I whistling that tune as I'm a brown boy. Shocked him I guess. But I was whistling it because I just remember Sunday school.
Inspiration.. worth remembering & Teaching youngsters.
Thank-you💕
I grew up hearing this hymn in Spanish. My first time hearing it in English was the rendition by Stryper. As for the melody, part of me has wondered why I heard it outside of the church setting, which was explained in this video.
Thank you for the amazing history of this song. The winepress mentioned in Revelation 14 refers to the demise of unbelievers. For the righteous, we are looking forward to Revelation chapters 21 and 22. Truly, Jesus coming again will have us shouting, Glory, Glory, Hallelujah!
Thank you sir for sharing.. God bless from Nepal
My late husband on long trips would sing this song.
Before his death on Memorial Day his nurse told him she sang a song to her vererans. He requested this song so we three sang it
together. ips,would often Knowing his days were coming to an end, he helped plan his funeral and chose this song to be played. As the song started, i stood and sang along. Every -person joined in. So nearly eight years later after that final goodbye, this song is very special to me.
Started singing this in high school choir. Always thought of the Civil War. Beautiful true words still for today! Thank you for sharing. Spring Hill Florida 😊
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That, for as many times I've sung it, brought me to tears. Thank you.
I love this song! The grapes of "Wrath" is coming!!!
Oh my goodness. My heart feels like it could burst. Love this hymn ❤
I remember learning at least the first stanza and chorus of this song as a child in grade school, in the early 70’s. We sang it in a school concert for our parents, as we marched into the gymnasium and onto the risers. I never forgot the words and was thrilled to find it in the Hymn books, after I became a Christian in the ‘90’s. I still want to stand up and march when we sing it!
I'm not Christian in the slightest, but this is without a doubt my favorite hymn! Really meaningful words from a legendary progressive leader which embodies the soul of America.
Love that beautiful story I love that beautiful patriotic hymn what a blessing
This is my "battle hymn" in difficult and glory times! Halelujah. It is sure Holy Spirit powered!
I remember singing this song with my parents out of our hymnal. Special memory that helped ingrain a love for hymns. Which not many young people share. It was fun to get loud on the main chorus. 😊 Stay blessed! ✝️
I've always loved this hymn and I always had problems not wanting to March along while I sang. It certainly made me ready to fight evil and stand up for truth! You sing it much better than I ever could!😃
I'm the great grandson of Civil War soldiers and have known this hymn my entire life, but learned from your presentation. I don't remember ever hearing that last verse, but the others are all familiar. My father grew up with his grandfather, who limped into his 90s from an injury in the Battle of Vicksburg.. I enjoyed your personal version. I think this is very similar to the 1960 Grammy winning version: czcams.com/video/PHqF9FYp5UE/video.html
Wow! I heard this song during a UGA game and it caught me off guard. It made my eyes water. And I had to nearly brush away some of the tears.
Thanks for the history lesson which was so enriching to the song, reminds me of my late dad. He liked this song. We thought it was an old people song. Now I love it, seems am getting younger too. The song Builds faith and confidence in Christ. Hallelujah
The "deal with my contemners" line seems to also say that both sides should reconcile and have no hard feelings.
I love the old gospel hymns. One of my favorites was Precious Memories and If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Again. I used to listen to them over and over as a child. My first vinyl record was precious memories
WOW!!!! As a believer, a child of Almighty God, I get so excited about the Rapture and Jesus's second coming. This song makes me think of His Second Coming. For then we will be with Him as His Truth wins.
Absolutely beautiful!
Praise The Lord Halliluyah, Amen
Thank you, I love this hymn. We performed this hymn in concert when I was in high school. ❤
So loved that, thank you Luke, God bless
I love the history and have herd of the hymn a few times in old movies but never in church,
but I am not from the USA. This is beautiful.
Glory hallelujah..Amen.🙏🎶
This hymn along with other non-PC hymns are disappearing. I remember singing this song before the year 2000, now it’s not cool. Same for ‘Onward Christian Soldiers’ disappearing from worship services. At my church, we seldom sing songs from the ‘old’ hymnals. They might as well gather them up and… Praise songs with dumbed down lyrics is what we sing now. So sad. 😔😢✝️🙏🎼🎵🎶🕊
I love this hymn more now than I did before.
I originally didn’t know it was a hymn as , as kids we sung a completely different version
Glory glory hallelujah
Teacher hit me with a ruler
The ruler broke in half
And we all began to laugh
And we all went marching home
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I sing this hymn properly often at church
Rev. Powell, I have greatly enjoyed your exegesis of the lyrics to this hymn. I wanted to indicate that to me, the final (6th) verse is a beautiful summation (ontology) of the entire hymn. "He is coming like the glory of the morning on the wave" represents to me a vision of the dread of darkness on the sea (death), with the final `sun rise' being like the light (the coming of Christ, or even The Triune) all must turn to in death. The glory being our salvation through Jesus Christ. "He is Wisdom to the mighty, He is Succour to the brave," is a reminder to all to be humble appropriate to our insignificance before God [Ps 103 13-16]. "So the world shall be His footstool, and the soul of Time His slave," is reflective of the imagery of Christ's Kingdom (of which there will be no end) and the soul of time indicating the omnipresence of God with his never ending grace to those who love him. The Peace and Joy which surpasses all understanding be with you. Thank you. A. Gentry, BSEET, M.Div, MSMFT, USA.
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Thank you for doing this.
Amen, Love this song. I hear that you are South African as well xx
Very good! I enjoyed the explication of the history and theology and I especially liked your performance with the inclusion of the 6th verse, the original lyric "let us die to make men free", and the old-fashioned "Glory glory glory hallelujah" on the chorus towards the end. I also appreciated you keeping the steady tempo as befits a marching tune. This is so much superior to the overblown Mormon Tabernacle Choir arrangement which is so ubiquitous.
I have never sung the third verse or the last verse. These days it is usually just the three verses are sung but it is rousing & I couldn't help but join in singing. A song that when you are feeling blue it never fails to lift you out of it especially when you get to the chorus. So thank you for it as I was feeling rather tired after my day & so it was good to be cheered up. I do remember singing a version of John Brown but it wasn't the original song just a send up but then I am from Australia, not America. I have a feeling it was in a learn to play music book so I was surprised at the words because I knew it as the hymn from church. Sung more back in the 1950s & 60s but the Presbyterians seem to seem sing it from time to time even today. I have always loved the words as I pictured them in my mind. In the 50s the sermons were longer & fiery & I can remember being scared out of my wits as a little girl & hiding behind the pew in front. So this song was commonly sung.
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This is so kind! Thank you so very much!
God is amazing! I have been thinking about this song and explaining to my Japanese husband, how the original song was different but that God redeemed the song. Now I know the details!! Thank you!
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Enjoy your videos very much. Would you consider doing a video on the hymn "And Can It Be"? Beautiful hymn.
We sang this in school in the UK from 1966 - 1972. We used the Songs of Praise hymn book, Oxford University Press. But we sang it to a different rousing tune and there was no chorus. I have never heard it sung this way since.
This is such a beautifull story. I'll carry it in my heart whenever I remembered this song
6:15 Regarding wether wine press grape means of God's judgement or Jesus' shedding blood can actually both work since Father placed His wrath punishment to Jesus, instead of us, that the Truth with Love may still marching on as we tremble before His serious business & moved by Christ's dead....but who knows what she the writer had in mind for writing this part, this merely my interpretation
7:20 Indeed most of these lyrics may had been more on Revelation but I'll humbely argue that book made by John for assurance of Jesus' justice upon believers' sufferings, which in slavery context can be about necessity of the Lord's payment to injustice & becoming their hope while fearing of becoming injustice themselves upon seeing His seriousness (though I still opened to other interpretations of such passage....or if it's simply combinations of passages/ whole summarize doctrines).
Elvis included this in a Trilogy that is quite beautiful, with Dixie. A soft southern lullaby, "Hush, little baby don't you cry", rounded out the songs. A very unique culmination of songs that should heal the soul, a blending of the union with the confederacy.
When I think of the words "be jubilant my feet" to me it means we are jump to attention at His call. We should be jumping to attention not reluctantly or because we feel compelled to do so. Our feet should be eager and joyful to jump at His command to follow Him, to live for Him and obey His direction. Because it will bless us tremendously and will lead others to follow Him to and experience the love and joy only He can provide for us. It also makes me think of that scripture : (Isaiah 52:7) "¶ How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!"
@pauleywogg59 I thought of David dancing when he brought The Ark home.
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I love this. Thank you so much!! Can you do "I need the every hour" it's such a beautiful hymn.
Thanks you . Very interesting. 😇🇬🇧❤️🇮🇱
Did you know that Winston Churchill had this Hymn at his funeral?
Let us die. 1 Corinthians 15:31 - I die daily.
Song of Solomon 2:16 - “My beloved is mine, and I am his: he feedeth among the lilies. “ The Bride calls Christ her “beloved.” She is saying that Christ feeds among the lilies. “The 'lily' is the common little flower of the lowlands, so Jesus 'feeds' (has communion and fellowship) among this humble, meek class.
Up until the current administration here in the US, this song was always sung by the military band. Sadly, people have stopped their ears to the coming judgment - the song has died, along with the nation. Nevertheless, surely judgement is here and people still need to hear, and repent of SIN and seek forgiveness from the Lord Jesus Christ. He is the WAY. the TRUTH, and the LIFE.
It was a prophetic vision of the upcoming war.
We sing this song in our church,but in Afrikaans.
Oorwinningslied!
Ja,and it's beautiful!
Isaiah 24:15 in our fires, GOD will deliver?
I have heard it said that TBHotR was written with a Postmillennial end times perspective which saw the Civil War as a necessary battle against the National Sin of slavery and if conquered/removed from America, the Church through its missionary efforts could then win the world for Christ, thus ushering in the Millennium. Christ would return at the end of the Millennial period ushered in by the Church (a Postmillennial Return perspective). From your research, is this perspective possible?
This history says she wrote the poem, BUT sounds like God wrote it to us all and handed it over to His servant in the early morning.
Sng 5:13 Lilies-The words of JESUS? Luke 4:22
John Brown was an abolitionist; however, his tactics were highly questionable thus his demise. I don't dislike the song in the context of today but it is considered a terrible reminder of what the Northern States did our Southern Ancestors.
I agree
God’s countries that, took the Gospel to the dark world after the dark ages, America Britten Australia and many more European countries have let HIM down now. 😰💔🇺🇸🇬🇧🇦🇺🇨🇦🌏🌏💔😰.
The weapons of our warfare are not carnal.
Revelation 14:14-16 - The “harvest of the earth” which symbolizes the Lord taking His people, resurrection of the dead saints, rapture of living ones from the fallen world, to be with Him just prior to the sending of His wrath upon the lost. Harvested by Jesus.
Revelation 14:17-20 - The “gathering of the vine of the earth” and grapes which symbolize the wicked and the Lord sending His wrath upon lost mankind which remains on the earth, to be tested, refined, purified or exterminated. Harvested by Grim Reaper with sickle, Jesus treads upon them himself in the Winepress because his wrath at wickedness has come at last.
You know ……. If this story had occurred in modern times she would have been sued for plagiarism
Subscribed. Thank you. Today’s mushy praise yourself hymns are an offensive to God.
KEEP IN MIND THAT A 'SO CALLED'' CHRISTIAN... GENERALY DID NOT KEEP GOD'S COMMANDMENTS TO THE LETTER OF HIS LAW JUST LIKE TODAY'S CHRISTIANS DO NOT KEEP GOD'S LAWS. XMAS/EASTER/SUNDAY ARE NOT OF GOD'S COMMANDS. THE HOLY DAYS MENTIONED IN LEV. 23 / THE 7TH DAY SABBATH WHICH IS SO IMPORTANT GOD HIMSELF SET IT IN 4TH PLACE OF HIS 10 COMMANDS WHICH BASICALLY COVER ALL... AND XMAS CELEBRATION IS NOT WHAT THE LORD WANTS AS MENTIONED IN JEREMIAH ...AND SO ON. JUST LIKE BEING 'RAPTURED' OFF TO HEAVEN IS NTO AT ALL ANYWHERE IN THE BIBLE, MANKIND HAS PUT THEIR SPIN ON THINGS AS USUAL. NO ONE HAS ASCENDED TO HEAVEN OTHER THAN JESUS THE CHRIST WHO CAME DOWN FROM HEAVEN: HE IS AND WAS ADN ALWAYS WILL BE '''THE WORD'' / GOD ALMIGHTY'S SON AND CEO. AND NO ONE HAS EVER 'SEEN' GOD OTHER THAN CHRIST. CHRISTIANS OF ANCIENT TIMES SUCH AS JEWS ETC WERE WORSHIPING 'MOSES' MORE SO THAN THE UNSEEN GOD...THEY ALSO DID WHAT ALL HUMANS DO REGARDLESS OF ERA >> SPIN THINGS AROUND TO SUIT THEMSELVES.
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A bit more about origins. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Brown%27s_Body