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Who Is On The Lord’s Side
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Now this hymn is majestic, and I would like to hear it on the pipe organ!
This hymn has convicted me to go ahead in a plan I was deliberating to leave my comfort zone to serve the Lord among less privileged people in a remote and troubled part of India
“A catchy children’s hymn”? No, I don’t think so. (And none of the hymn books I checked places it among their hymns for children.) It is a call to service for the Lord Jesus Christ. I don’t think children could comprehend the nuances of the text, or the “fierceness of the conflict” Frances Havergal describes.
Having said that, I might use the first stanza with children, teaching them the basic principle of obedience to the Lord, and preparing them to have a greater appreciation for the whole hymn in later years. But it is definitely not a children’s hymn.
If you don’t already keep tabs on my daily hymn blog, Wordwise Hymns, I encourage you to do so. By the end of the year, I’ll have referenced about a thousand hymns. “Who Is on the Lord’s Side?” was written 133 years ago this very day.
And if you’ll excuse a brief “commercial:” With the arrival of fall, we begin to think of the Christmas season up ahead. If you do not have a good book on the subject of our Christmas carols, I encourage you to take a look at mine, Discovering the Songs of Christmas. In it, I discuss the history and meaning of 63 carols and Christmas hymns. The book is available through Amazon, or directly from Jebaire Publishing. (Might make a great gift too!)