Accepting what used to be exceptions
= Compromise.
– 6/3/09
Archive for June 8th, 2009
Compromise
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A PRAYER
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Give us ways of worshiping the Master,
Grant us ways.
In these days of rushing ever faster,
Restless days.
Urge us upward through the clamoring din,
Ever onward.
Till upward pulling You bring us in,
To brightest heaven, banished of sin,
To mansions prepared for mere men.
Pull us upward.
Draw us nearer to Your Father heart,
Bring us nearer.
Become dearer; not farther apart,
Always dearer.
Make my soul a simple scrap of steel,
Work my soul.
Make it sensitive to feel,
The attraction so real
Wood, hay, & stubble from me magnetically peel
Tug on my soul.
I pray Thee let us hear Thy calling voice,
O, pray Thee.
Let us serve Thee by eternal choice,
Selflessly serve.
Soon tomorrow will beckon in haste,
Timeless tomorrow.
Help us so live that when we are faced,
With the record we have fixed in place,
Our sojourn will not be a useless disgrace,
Has’en tomorrow.
– eab, 6/80
Written while pastoring Christ Church – Bible Methodist, Friendsvill, TN
Edith Margaret Clarkson – birth, Jun 8, 1915
Posted in born today, Canada, lady writer, today in history, uncategorized, tagged 1915, 2008, born this date, Canada, die to dear desire, died 3/17/2008, Edith Margaret Clarkson, forsaking home and kindred, friend and dear one, heart a-hungering for the loved, labor long and love, leave your life’s ambitions, lose your life in mine, Melville, of twentieth century, Saskatchewan, self-will resign, So send I you, To bear rebuke, to loneliness and longing, To serve unpaid, to suffer scorn and scoffing, Toronto. been called greatest missionary hymn, unloved unsought unknown, where men revile you, wrote “So Send I You” on June 8, 2009| 1 Comment »
“So Send I You”
So send I you to labor unrewarded,
To serve unpaid, unloved, unsought, unknown,
To bear rebuke, to suffer scorn and scoffing,
So send I you to toil for me alone.
So send I you – to loneliness and longing,
With heart a-hungering for the loved and known;
Forsaking home and kindred, friend and dear one,
So send I you – to know my love alone.
So send I you – to leave your life’s ambitions,
To die to dear desire, self-will resign,
To labor long and love where men revile you,
So send I you – to lose your life in mine.
Edith Margaret Clarkson was born this date 6/8/1915 at Melville, Saskatchewan, Canada. She wrote “So Send I You” and God of Creation, All-Powerful. She died 3/17/2008 in Toronto. “So Send I You” has been called the greatest missionary hymn of the twentieth century.
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