How Great Thou Art

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The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

-       Eden Phillipotts, 1862-1961.

   At the time of this writing scientists are still probing the depths of the Universe in order to discover the secrets of the origins of life, although I am convinced that they will acknowledge that they are still only scratching the surface of the wealth of undiscovered knowledge beneath.  
   When I think of gifted people like Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, Arthur Eddington, Patrick Moore and the new generation of brilliant minds in the fields of astronomy, astro-physics and quantum mechanics I, as much I admire them, still only see them as toddlers playing with Lego blocks in a nursery, as compared to the knowledge still lurking undiscovered beyond the horizons of the known Universe.

   Let’s perform a field experiment: Let’s gather all of the brilliant scientific and philosophical minds of the world together in one resort and pool all the accumulated knowledge of those minds in one computer data bank … what will that grand result tally up to as a percentage of all the available knowledge in the entire Universe: 1%, 2%, 5%?  Even at an 'astronomical' 5% it stands to reason that God could still be hiding in the 95% of the knowledge that they don’t know! So how the atheist-evolutionists propose to ‘prove away God’ still boggles my mind.  

   Only recently a well known (atheist) physicist-writer has said that when people die they are extinguished and destroyed like an old, redundant computer hard-disk.  Has it never occurred to that genius that computer hard-disks do not fall out of the sky or evolve from fish in the sea or from bacteria on Earth?  Somebody must have made that computer hard-disk, and somebody must have made the human race too. After all, humans are much more precious and valuable than computer hard-disks.

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How Great Thou Art

(Carl Boberg, 1859-1940/Trans. by Stuart K. Hine, 1899-1989/Swedish melody/© Copyright 1955 by Manna Music, Inc. Hollywood, California)

O Lord my God, when I in awesome wonder

Consider all the worlds Thy hands have made,

I see the stars, I hear the rolling* thunder,

Thy pow’r throughout the universe displayed!

When thru the woods and forest glades I wander

And hear the birds sing sweetly in the trees,

When I look down from lofty mountain grandeur

And hear the brook and feel the gentle breeze.

And when I think that God, His Son not sparing,

Sent Him to die, I scarce can take it in –

That on the cross, my burden gladly bearing,

He bled and died to take away my sin!

When Christ shall come with shout of acclamation

And take me home, what joy shall fill my heart!

Then I shall bow in humble adoration

And there proclaim, my God, how great Thou art!

REFRAIN

Then sings my soul, my Savior God, to Thee;

How great Thou art, how great Thou art!

Then sings my soul, my Savior God, to Thee;

How great Thou art, how great Thou art!

*Translator’s original words are ‘works’ and ‘mighty’

Piet Stassen

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Bibliography

1.  Andrews, Allen (1969) Quotations For Speakers And Writers. Newnes Books. Hamlyn Publishing Group Ltd. London.

2.  Peterson, John V. (1968) Great Hymns Of The Faith. ‘How Great Thou Art’. Singspiration, Inc. Zondervan Publishing House. Grand Rapids, Michigan.

3.  TheVerge. 'Planet Earth From Cassini Spacecraft Orbiting Saturn'. Accessed At <http://www.theverge.com/2013/7/22/4547276/nasas-cassini-spacecraft-captures-breathtaking-images-of-earth-from> [online] 2013.

4.  Wikipedia. 'Carl Boberg'. Accessed At <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Boberg> [online] 2013.