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In June 1961, Reverend Robert Wesby (c. 1927-1988) of Aurora, Illinois, created "I Woke Up This Morning with My Mind Stayed On Freedom" while spending time in Hinds County, Mississippi’s jail as a Freedom Rider. That autumn, 114 students sang the song at the Burglund High School Walk Out and march to McComb, Mississippi, city hall. [2] [3] [4]
Peace, Perfect Peace is a hymn whose lyrics were written in August 1875 by Edward H. Bickersteth at the bedside of a dying relative. [1] [2] He read it to his relative immediately after writing it, to his children at tea time that day, [2] and soon published it along with four other hymns he had written in a tract called Songs in the House of Pilgrimage. [1]
It went on to peak at No. 2, where it stayed there for a record nineteen weeks. It became their longest charting single at 60 weeks. It debuted at No. 24 on the Billboard Christian Airplay chart on the issue week of 19 January 2019. [11] It reached the top ten on its sixth week. [12] [13] It became their fifth leader, staying there for ten ...
Instead, the poem draws on an older story, repeated in Milton's History of Britain, that Joseph of Arimathea, alone, travelled to preach to the ancient Britons after the death of Jesus. [4] The poem's theme is linked to the Book of Revelation (3:12 and 21:2) describing a Second Coming, wherein Jesus establishes a New Jerusalem.
In 1984, P.D.Q. Bach (a.k.a. Peter Schickele) lampooned the song in his opera The Abduction of Figaro in the aria "Stay with Me". [28] Lyrics from the song were interpolated on reggae artist Buju Banton's song "Hush Baby Hush" on his 1995 album 'Til Shiloh. Australian group Human Nature included their version of the song on the 2014 album Jukebox.
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(Occasion or theme: Peace in Jesus, and the Divine Reward.) In Sankey's Sac. Songs and Solos, from her Life Mosaic, 1879. Like a river glorious, Is God's perfect Peace. (Occasion or theme: Peace.) In her Loyal Responses, 1878, in 3 stanzas of 8 lines, with the chorus, "Stayed upon Jehovah." In several collections.
"Follow On", also known in certain cases as "Down In The Valley With My Saviour I Would Go" [1] and "I Will Follow Jesus", is a Christian hymn written in 1878 by William Orcutt Cushing. [2] The music for it was composed in 1880 by both Robert Lowry and W. Howard Doane .