Hooray for Cowper!

OK, I simply HAVE TO try and SHOW you exactly, just what it is I find so fascinating about these "jolly" hymns! I just got on the computer, and went straight to "God of my life, to thee I call", by William Cowper. I bounced away to the music, and drank in the encouragement, as if it where a crystal clear stream in a schorching dessert ("deh-zert") The song, in so many words, says, "HELP, LORD!" Here is the link:

http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/g/o/gomylife.htm

OK - next hymn...

"Jesus, Whose Blood so free streamed" - again by William Cowper. I love the whole hymn, but especially the last two verses! They go like this:

Now, Lord, Thy feeble worm prepare!For strife with earth and hell begins;Conform and gird me for the war;They hate the soul that hates his sins.

Let them in horrid league agree!They may assault, they may distress;But cannot quench Thy love to me,Nor rob me of the Lord my Peace.

The hymn:

http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/j/e/jewhoseb.htm

Next hymn...

"Holy Lord God! I love thy truth" - yet again by William Cowper. This verse explains very well, in my opinion, why I am still in Korea:

The prisoner, sent to breathe fresh air,And blessed with liberty again,Would mourn, were he condemned to wearOne link of all his former chain.

Next...

http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/l/p/lprochga.htm
One of the "coming reformation" hymns, in my opinion.

Bye for now.

Daniel