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  1. Clara Wiebe
    5 June 2009 @ 12:21 am

    Hi, I like your idea of having a hymn for each day- or composer of one for the day. It just makes that day meaningful without having to go to a book to find it – the research has already been done. will come back to check it out again.

    • rcottrill
      5 June 2009 @ 6:39 am

      Thanks Clara. I’ll be interested to see how many folks enjoy this brief dip into our heritage of Christian hymns day by day.

  2. rcottrill
    11 July 2010 @ 7:16 am

    Thanks for the link, and for your comments. I’m not sure I agree though that the mortality rate is just the same as it was 150 years ago (except in the sense that one out of one dies!). Before the advent of improved medical techniques, and powerful drugs, many died in infancy, or at least long before their three-score-and-ten. I do think that is a factor. Death was an all too common occurance, keeping before people the prospect of eternity beyond.

    But all that medical advancement, and the wonders of technology can be a two-edged sword. To the secular mind, it holds out the prospect of paradise on earth, and folks can become enamoured with material things, and living the “good life.” Sadly, the outlook of some Christians becomes so tainted with this worldly view that they think little of the world to come. I have one old hymn book in which more than 10% of the songs relate to the heaven and the Lord’s return. Many of these hymns are long forgotten.