{"id":2425,"date":"2016-02-04T23:58:09","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T23:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baonline.cog7engage.net\/?p=2425"},"modified":"2023-08-29T11:19:19","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T17:19:19","slug":"sing-a-morning-hymn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baonline.cog7engage.net\/sing-a-morning-hymn\/","title":{"rendered":"Sing a Morning Hymn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first time Abraham Lincoln met Harriet Beecher Stowe, he half-heartedly said, \u201cSo you\u2019re the little lady who wrote the book that started the war.\u201d Stowe is famous for her novel <em>Uncle Tom\u2019s Cabin<\/em> (1852), a heart-wrenching portrayal of the plight of slaves, credited for sparking the Civil War and England\u2019s abolitionist movement.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>But Stowe\u2019s celebrated novel was only one of her many works. Her social activism was merely an outgrowth of a deeper passion.<\/p>\n<p>Stowe\u2019s work was driven by her faith, and her public life fueled by her private devotion. This woman habitually rose early to enjoy the freshness of a new day and time alone with God. Not surprisingly, the hymn she wrote is one for morning meditation, titled \u201cStill, Still With Thee.\u201d Four of the hymn\u2019s six stanzas are in the box, right.<\/p>\n<p>Daybreak symbolizes new life, fresh mercies, the beauty of sunrise, songs of wakening birds, flight of night\u2019s shadows \u2014 \u201cUntil the day breaks and the shadows flee . . .\u201d (Song of Solomon 4: 6; 2:17, NIV). But there\u2019s something \u201clovelier than daylight.\u201d It is waking to the \u201csweet consciousness\u201d of God\u2019s abiding presence: \u201cWhen I awake, I am still with thee\u201d (Psalm 139:18, KJV).<\/p>\n<p>For context, Psalm 139 is David\u2019s exploration of God\u2019s omnipresence and omniscience, divine attributes whereby He is everywhere present all at once and is intimately acquainted with all His creation, including those made in His image. These are anchor points for the sanctity and dignity of human life, encouragement for those who spend themselves defending these inalienable rights.<\/p>\n<p>They were for Stowe, and the hymn they inspired was deeply meaningful to fellow activist Booker T. Washington. Having fallen gravely ill while traveling in New York and sensing death was imminent, he requested (against medical advice) to be brought back to the Tuskegee, Alabama campus. Arriving there at dawn, and gazing across the sun-crowned landscape, Washington requested that the chapel choir sing \u201cStill, Still With Thee.\u201d As they did, he closed his eyes in death (November 14, 1915).<\/p>\n<p>This hymn is sung at Tuskegee chapel services to this day. Don\u2019t miss the resurrection theme in the final stanza. Morning is symbolic of resurrection, fadeless day, life\u2019s shadows gone, forever with Him.<\/p>\n<p>Until then, don\u2019t let today\u2019s microwave culture squeeze you into its mold. Take the crockpot approach \u2014 slow, unhurried. Do it early, day still unsoiled by life\u2019s toils and cares. This was Stowe\u2019s secret. Make it yours.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Still, still with Thee, when purple morning breaketh, <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>When the bird waketh, and the shadows flee: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Fairer than morning, lovelier than daylight, <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Dawns the sweet consciousness, I am with Thee. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Alone with Thee, amid the mystic shadows, <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>The solemn hush of nature newly born; <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Alone with Thee in breathless adoration, <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>In the calm dew and freshness of the morn. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>When sinks the soul, subdued by toil, to slumber, <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Its closing eye looks up to Thee in prayer; <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Sweet the repose beneath the wings\u2019 o\u2019ershading, <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>But sweeter still to wake and find Thee there. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>So shall it be at last, in that bright morning <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>When the soul waketh and life\u2019s shadows flee; <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>O in that hour, fairer than daylight dawning, <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Shall rise the glorious thought, I am with Thee.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first time Abraham Lincoln met Harriet Beecher Stowe, he half-heartedly said, \u201cSo you\u2019re the little lady who wrote the book that started the war.\u201d Stowe is famous for her novel Uncle Tom\u2019s Cabin (1852), a heart-wrenching portrayal of the plight of slaves, credited for sparking the Civil War and England\u2019s abolitionist movement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":2426,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sync_status":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","castos_file_data":"","podmotor_file_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - 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