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Thread #116567 Message #2503798
Posted By: Joe Offer
28-Nov-08 - 04:25 PM
Thread Name: DT Correction: Years Are Coming / Years of Peace
Subject: RE: DT Correction: Years Are Coming / Years of Peace
Thanks, Q. I corrected the missing "falchion." See also Between the Lines By Jacqui James, a companion to Singing the Living TraditionYears Are Coming
Adin Ballou (1803-1890) was a Universalist minister who founded the Hopedale Community, an experiment in "practical Christianity," in 1842. In 1849 the Hopedale Collection of Hymns and Songs for the Use of Practical Christians, compiled by Ballou and containing twenty of his pieces, was issued. This text, titled "Reign of Christian Peace" and credited to Hopedale College, is included in The Gospel Psalmist, 1861, in the section on "Christian Philanthropy and Reform." Two syllables were added to line 4 of each quatrain.
That Hopedale hymnal has some wonderful song lyrics.