OzThoughts. Monday 20th July, 2009

OzThoughts. Monday 20th July, 2009

One of my favourite pieces of Salvation Army Band Music is “In Quiet Pastures” [ Listen: In Quiet Pastures”: http://www.salvoaudio.com/audio/music/mus_2464.mp3 ] which features the tune “Shepherd hear my prayer”. The words we associate with the tune are here introduced by General Albert Osborne C.B.E. (sung by Harlesden Songsters and organ) accompaniment: http://www.regalzonophone.com/audio/MF338%20-%20Vocal%20-%20Shepherd,%20Hear%20My%20Prayer.mp3

Unto thee will I cry,
Shepherd, hear my prayer!
Poor and needy am 1,
Shepherd, hear my prayer!
Deep is calling unto deep.
Rugged are the heights, and steep;
Guide my steps and keep;
Hear, O hear my prayer!
Hear, O hear my prayer!

Where the tempest is loud,
Shepherd, hear my prayer!
'Mid the darkness and cloud,
Shepherd, hear my prayer
Let me hear thy voice afar,
Coming with the morning star;
True thy mercies are!
Hear, O hear my prayer!
Hear, O hear my prayer!

Let the foe not prevail,
Shepherd, hear my prayer!
My resources would fail,
Shepherd, hear my prayer!
Order all my steps aright,
Carry me from height to height;
Yonder shines the light!
Shepherd, lead me there!
Lead me safely there!
Author: Albert Orsborn (1886-1967)
The Salvation Army Song Book: Song Number: 641

Albert Orsborn, later to become General (World Leader) of the Salvation Army, wrote these words in New Zealand. He commented later the song was originally born of personal battles on the heights and in the depths – otherwise it could not have been written”. (Companion to the Song Book. Gordon Avery. 1962).

The words are a prayer that it would help us all this week as we meditate on it and make it a prayer.

"I am the Good Shepherd. I know my own sheep and my own sheep know me. In the same way, the Father knows me and I know the Father. I put the sheep before myself, sacrificing myself if necessary. You need to know that I have other sheep in addition to those in this pen. I need to gather and bring them, too. They'll also recognize my voice. Then it will be one flock, one Shepherd. This is why the Father loves me: because I freely lay down my life. And so I am free to take it up again. No one takes it from me. I lay it down of my own free will. I have the right to lay it down; I also have the right to take it up again. I received this authority personally from my Father." (John 10: 14-18. The Message).

Listen to an address by General Albert Osborne where he introduces his song sung by C.B.E. Harlesden Songsters and organ accompaniment: http://www.regalzonophone.com/audio/MF338%20-%20Vocal%20-%20Shepherd,%20Hear%20My%20Prayer.mp3

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