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Sunday's Hymn

Sunday, July 12, 2009 at 2:11PM

John Milton dictates to his daughters, by Eugène DelacroixThis week’s hymn was written by the poet John Milton.

The Lord will come and not be slow;
His footsteps cannot err;
Before Him righteousness shall go,
His royal harbinger.

Mercy and truth, that long were missed,
Now joyfully are met;
Sweet peace and righteousness have kissed,
And hand in hand are set.

Rise, God, judge Thou the earth in might,
This wicked earth redress;
For Thou art He who shalt by right
The nations all possess.

The nations all whom Thou hast made
Shall come, and all shall frame
To bow them low before Thee, Lord!
And glorify Thy Name!

Truth from the earth, like to a flower,
Shall bud and blossom then,
And justice, from her heavenly bower,
Look down on mortal men.

Thee will I praise, O Lord, my God!
Thee honor and adore
With my whole heart; and blaze abroad
Thy Name forevermore!

Other hymns by poets:

Other hymns, worship songs, sermons etc. posted today:

Lord’s Day 28, 2009 at The Thirsty Theologian
Have You Not Known, Have You Not Heard at The Happy Wonderer
All the Way My Savior Leads Me at Fieldstone Cottage
The Infinite and the Finite from The Valley of Vision at The Upward Call
Your Weekly Dose of Spurgeon at Pyromaniacs: On Philosophical Apologetics
Behold th’Amazing Gift of Love at joythruChrist

Have you posted a hymn today and I missed it? Let me know by leaving a link in the comments or by emailing me at the address in the sidebar and I’ll add your post to the list.

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This photo was taken in the Chicago area, at the zoo, I think, because that’s the only place I can remember riding in a stroller like that. Yes, that’s me in front on the right, and the cute little munchkin on the left is my younger sister.

My mother’s handwriting on the back of this picture identifies the others, from left to right, as Harriet’s friend (she didn’t remember her name), Ron Lewis, my dad, my mom, and Bob Wright. Harriet was my mother’s good friend from Pocatello, Idaho (She must have been the one who took the photo.) and Ron Lewis and Bob Wright were two young men who had come to know Christ in the little church in Bellevue, Idaho while my father was pastoring there. I suppose that Harriet and her friend had driven the two teens back to visit my family while we were living in Wheaton, Illinois.

The reason I wanted to show you this photo is that I mentioned in an old post that three teenaged boys had given my sister and me a set of Lincoln Logs, a set of Tinkertoys, and two home made doll cradles for Christmas. Ron Lewis and Bob Wright are two of those boys. Ron Lewis eventually became a missionary in Papua New Guinea and Bob Wright became a doctor a missionary in Venezuela.

I was six years old in this photo. Do you see that I’m wearing my Buster Brown oxfords? I’d wanted a pair of patent leather Mary Jane style shoes, but my feet were so narrow that only oxfords would fit me. My sister is wearing oxfords, too. Poor girl. She probably could have worn pretty patent leather Mary Janes but was stuck wearing oxfords because I was.

My hair hasn’t changed much over the years. Yes, it’s a darker blonde and I do have gray, but otherwise, except for the bangs, that’s more or less how it looks now.