{"id":19705,"date":"2024-06-09T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-09T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=19705"},"modified":"2024-06-08T23:04:00","modified_gmt":"2024-06-09T03:04:00","slug":"sunday-singing-how-sweet-and-awful-is-the-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=19705","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Singing: How Sweet and Awful Is the Place"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How Sweet and Awesome Is the Place\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/n2t0MWMVAv0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today&#8217;s hymn comes from the great English hymnist Isaac Watts (1674-1748). It was published in 1707, while Dr. Watts was pastor of Independent Church of London. The tune is a familiar Irish melody called St. Columba. (And since I found it, let me share this organ prelude to St. Columba. You&#8217;ll want headphones for both recordings to catch the subtleties.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBlessed is everyone who will eat bread in the kingdom of God!\u201d (Luke 14:15 ESV)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1 How sweet and awful is the place<br>with Christ within the doors,<br>while everlasting love displays<br>the choicest of her stores.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2 While all our hearts and all our songs<br>join to admire the feast,<br>each of us cries, with thankful tongue,<br>&#8220;Lord, why was I a guest?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3 &#8220;Why was I made to hear Thy voice,<br>and enter while there&#8217;s room,<br>when thousands make a wretched choice<br>and rather starve than come?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">4 &#8216;Twas the same love that spread the feast<br>that sweetly drew us in;<br>else we had still refused to taste,<br>and perished in our sin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">5 Pity the nations, O our God,<br>constrain the earth to come;<br>send Thy victorious Word abroad,<br>and bring the strangers home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">6 We long to see Thy churches full,<br>that all the chosen race<br>may, with one voice and heart and soul,<br>sing Thy redeeming grace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s hymn comes from the great English hymnist Isaac Watts (1674-1748). It was published in 1707, while Dr. Watts was pastor of Independent Church of London. The tune is a familiar Irish melody called St. Columba. (And since I found it, let me share this organ prelude to St. Columba. 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