Songs We Sing (9/8/13)

We are going to be singing There Is A Hope again this week so if you need to become more familiar with it in order to confidently sing along, please take some time and listen to it between now and then. Below you will find a video of the song or if you’d like, you can buy it on iTunes.

Another we will be singing, The Sands of Time Are Sinking, we haven’t done it in a while (almost a year ago to date strangely enough). This song has a funny line in it that has brought about questions in the past. The line says, “It were a well-spent journey, tho’ sev’n deaths lay between.” What does the author of this line, Mr. Samuel Rutherford, mean by seven deaths? I don’t know who Pat Farish is, but he (assuming Pat Farish is a he) had one of the best explanations I could find. This is what He said,

“The words of the song, ‘The Sands of Time,’ are wonderfully to the point. The author, describing the trek from earth to heaven, says, ‘It were a well-spent journey, tho’ sev’n death[s] lay between….’ As far as physical termination is concerned, ‘…it is appointed unto men once to die’ (Hebrews 9:27), and we are pleased it is no more than ‘once.’ We do not usually view physical death with desire or delight, being occasioned as it often is by illness or injury, and always involving separation from loved ones; but the thrust of the song is, if we had to die SEVEN times, enroute to heaven, ‘It were a well-spent journey’!” (Pat Farish; With All Boldness; January 1993; Vol. 3, No. 1; p. 3).

So there you have it. Now you can sing along happily.

Here are our songs for this Lord’s Day.