The most moving performance I ever witnessed of the song below was in a
squatters' settlement in Mexico, performed by very poor people, playing
hand-made instruments. It sounds very, very different coming out of the
mouths of people who haven't benefited from U.S. culture. They were, in
fact, people who see the United States as a supporter of right-wing
government and business leaders that do everything they can to prevent
people from becoming educated, forming labor unions or any of a number of
other actions that in this country are considered fundamental liberties and
very, very American values. Throughout Latin America, we support such
actions, directly and indirectly.
God calls for justice, God calls for us to cast out the wicked from among
us, God expects us to hold one another accountable and to punish
appropriately. And God calls us to do all of these things in love, not
hatred. God does not call us to be vengeful to one another. God teaches us
to hate evil, not neighbors. Evil
One of the things that transformed Europe 500 years ago was when the Gospels
became available to ordinary people, who saw that Christ favored the poor
and oppressed, not the wealthy and powerful. As we turn to Scripture in
this song and elsewhere, it will demand that we seek first the gift of love
in our own hearts before we dare judge others.
God will judge each of us one of these days.
Nick
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> Subject: Songs
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>
> The full text of The Battle Hymn of the Republic was sung in full at the
> Memorial Service in the National Cathedral today. Very few people are
> familiar with the full text. I call your attention in particular to the
> third verse. I should also note that the _first_ sermon delivered at that
> service was by a Muslim cleric. I was at the Harvard memorial service
> today - sermons were delivered by Baptist, Catholic, Methodist, Islamic,
> Hindu, Buddhist, and Jewish clerics. That is how _we_ live up to our
> ideals in a crisis.
>
> Julia Ward Howe
>
>
> 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.
>
>
> 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
> l 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 burnish`d 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!
> His truth 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!
> His truth is marching on.
>
>
> ln 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!
> His truth is marching on.
>
> God Bless America,
> Gautam Mukunda
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