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  • MrsBeakyMrsBeaky Shipmate
    Arethosemyfeet wrote: »
    Draw us the nearer, each to each, we plead; by drawing all to thee, O Prince of Peace.

    That's beautiful
  • Gamma GamalielGamma Gamaliel Shipmate
    That's a good one. Yours? Or is it out there already?
  • kingsfoldkingsfold Shipmate
    edited July 2024
    Feels familiar to me.....
    Think it's from a hymn and the next line is possibly something about
    thus may we all one bread one body be; through this blest sacrament of unity.
    Mind you, those lines are probably divisive too...
  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    It's from the hymn O thou who at thy Eucharist didst pray, by W H Turton (1856-1938).

    https://hymnary.org/hymn/AM2013/460
  • DafydDafyd Hell Host
    kingsfold wrote: »
    Feels familiar to me.....
    Think it's from a hymn and the next line is possibly something about
    thus may we all one bread one body be; through this blest sacrament of unity.
    Mind you, those lines are probably divisive too...
    I like the lines Arethosemyfeet quoted too.

    There's a bit later in the hymn about bringing "the wanderers from the fold back to the church which still the faith doth keep" which is open to more tendentious readings.

  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    Dafyd wrote: »
    kingsfold wrote: »
    Feels familiar to me.....
    Think it's from a hymn and the next line is possibly something about
    thus may we all one bread one body be; through this blest sacrament of unity.
    Mind you, those lines are probably divisive too...
    I like the lines Arethosemyfeet quoted too.

    There's a bit later in the hymn about bringing "the wanderers from the fold back to the church which still the faith doth keep" which is open to more tendentious readings.

    Yes, I have the same qualms about some of the other parts of the hymn! The full text is in the link I provided.

  • ChastMastrChastMastr Shipmate
    Oh yes, I did mean “capital punishment for gay stuff” by “murder,” absolutely—I didn’t mean random lynch mobs etc.
  • peasepease Tech Admin
    Gamma Gamaliel wrote: »
    I'm not defending it, as I've said, there are aspects of it that make me feel uncomfortable.
    Sorry - I wasn't intending to throw my questions in your particular direction.
    How do you think it should be worded?

    I'm not sure I'd like to have the job of framing it.
    Bishops Finger wrote: »
    It's from the hymn O thou who at thy Eucharist didst pray, by W H Turton (1856-1938).
    https://hymnary.org/hymn/AM2013/460
    It's a much more sympathetic narrative.
    make thou our sad divisions soon to cease

    NB By my reckoning, the text is out of copyright.
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