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On our home page, an article called Silence Is Golden, about my experience with the gifts of the Holy Spirit.

Full-length Hymn Midis These are distinct from the midis included with the hymn lyrics files, which are quite short.

What Christians Believe A series of articles about the basics of our faith.

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Blessed Assurance

Words: Fanny Crosby, 1873:

My friend, Mrs. Joseph F. Knapp, composed a melody and played it over to me two or three times on the piano. She then asked what it said. I replied, "Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine!"

"During the recent war in the Transvaal," said a gentleman at my meeting in Exeter Hall, London, in 1900, "when the soldiers going to the front were passing another body of soldiers whom they recognized, their greetings used to be, 'Four-nine-four, boys; four-nine-four;' and the salute would invariably be answered with 'Six further on, boys; six further on.' The significance of this was that, in 'Sacred Songs and Solos,' a number of copies of the small edition of which had been sent to the front, number 494 was 'God be with you until we meet again;' and six further on than 494, or number 500, was 'Blessed Assurance, Jesus is mine.'"

-- Quotation from Ira D. Sankey

Source: www.cyberhymnal.org - no indication of copyrighted material.

 


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