The series “Then Sings My Soul: The Hymns of My Youthâ€? (“HoMY”) continues. This week’s entry is from 1882, with words by Louisa Stead and music by William Kirkpatrick. I look at the lyrics and find myself (a) wondering how you “prove” Jesus and (b) wishing that fewer people had been so confident that they knew “Thus saith the Lord” concerning my life. Ah, well. There’s a peace in trusting Jesus, no matter. Many of these songs to which the lyrics are so familiar have a certain “rise” to them when you hear an instrumental version — particularly an instrumental that has a simplicity about it. In this case, following the lyrics I’ve got a video nabbed from YouTube with nothing but the finger-pickin’ instrumental. It isn’t all that long but I liked it, and hope you will too.
‘Tis so sweet to trust in Jesus,
and to take him at his word;
just to rest upon his promise,
and to know, “Thus saith the Lord.”Refrain:
Jesus, Jesus, how I trust him!
How I’ve proved him o’er and o’er!
Jesus, Jesus, precious Jesus!
O for grace to trust him more!O how sweet to trust in Jesus,
just to trust his cleansing blood;
and in simple faith to plunge me
neath the healing, cleansing flood!
(Refrain)Yes, ’tis sweet to trust in Jesus,
just from sin and self to cease;
just from Jesus simply taking
life and rest, and joy and peace.
(Refrain)I’m so glad I learned to trust thee,
precious Jesus, Savior, friend;
and I know that thou art with me,
wilt be with me to the end.
(Refrain)
(If you read via RSS, you’ll have to click through to play the video — RSS feeds do not support embedding.)
Jim,
I think the RSS spec prohibits the <embed> tag, but I guess some readers render it anyway. I think there’s a thing or two I could try next time I post one to see if I can get them to embed in the feed. My own reader always drops them, but perhaps I could at least get it working in Google reader.
I checked the feed for the post I mentioned above and it indeed has the embed tag in it, so as with so many things related to RSS, it appears that some RSS publishing tools allow more than the spec and some readers accept whatever comes down the pipe. For me, as a blog reader, I would just say the more you can send in your feed, the better, because I for one almost never visit an originating blog site except to post comments (and ah, if readers supported that, like a “reply to”, then I would be in heaven). Anyway, just wanted to pass along the observation, because there are at least some blogs out there doing embeds, and some readers supporting them.