RELEVANT MUSIC
More than two hundred years ago, a young man with the sophisticated bearing of an Oxford don climbed the steps of a stone monument called the “market cross” in the industrial ghetto of Liverpool, England. Leaning against the cross and looking out over the milling masses, his eyes and ears were shocked by the sights and sounds of dirty and bedraggled miners and millers venting the rage of their hopelessness with damning curses and drunken brawls.Breathing a prayer and stretching tall against the cross, the young man began to sing, O, for a thousand tongues to sing,
My great Redeemer’s praise,
The glories of my God and King,
The triumphs of His grace.
The words came easily from his lips because he had written them to celebrate the first anniversary of his conversion to Jesus Christ. He had no trouble with the music because he sang in the melody of a popular tune which all of the people…
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