Left – Right

When you leave Right –

 

                   all that’s Left is Left. – eab, 3/29/09

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Why Spring?

The grand Lord knew, after the white and the blue,

Of the cold, crisp fortnights of chill,

After stark star lights and short day sights,

And iced-over bridges at the bottoms of the hill,

After sleet’s solid rain and the snow flakes again,

And the humdrum of life in confinement;

That man needed to sing – he needed spring –

The Lord’s annual perfection of refinement.   -eab, 3/29/80

Penned in Friendsville, Tennessee, located in western Blount Co.

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Charles Wesley – death, Mar. 29, 1788

“A Charge to Keep I Have”

 

A charge to keep I have,
A God to glorify,
A never-dying soul to save,
And fit it for the sky.

 

To serve the present age,
My calling to fulfill:
O may it all my powers engage
To do my Master’s will!

 

Arm me with jealous care,
As in Thy sight to live;
And O Thy servant, Lord, prepare
A strict account to give!

 

Help me to watch and pray,
And on Thyself rely,
Assured, if I my trust betray,
I shall for ever die.

 

Charles Wesley died this date (3/29/1788) in London, England.  He had been born in Epworth, Lincolnshire, England, the eighteenth of nineteen children, all sons and daughters of Samuel (too often under-rated) and Susanna (perhaps a bit over-rated) Wesley. He married Sally Gwynne on April 8, 1749 and to this union were born eight little Wesleys.  His hymns and/or gospel songs exceeded 6500. 

 

A few other songs by Wesley are “Christ the Lord Is Risen Today,” “Jesus Lover of My Soul,” and “O for a Thousands Tongues.”

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