Re: Re: Gone The Sun
By: Spiffwiggler to Newborn on Tue May 27 2008 07:30 am
> Hey guy! Good to see you. How have you been?
>
I have my good days and my bad, but the Lord willing I have more good ones
then bad. Thanks for the invitation to join your network group, but, I'm
not that technically knowledgeble to do it justice.
Hope you and the family are well. Dovenet has changed a lot in the last
year. Have you been in touch with Daryl? Hope he's well. Glad to see
your still working hard for Christ.
God Bless my Brother
> -Rev. Michael E. Washburn
>
> -=> Newborn wrote to All <=-
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> Ne> In 1862, during the US Civil War, General Daniel Butterfield wanted a
> Ne> new melody for "lights out" And so, without any musical training, he
> Ne> composed one in his head.
>
> Ne> Years later, the general wrote, "I called in someone who could write
> Ne> music, and practiced a change in the call of "Taps' until I had it suit
> Ne> my ear, and then... got it to my taste without being able to write
> Ne> music or knowing the technical name of any note, but simply by ear,
> Ne> arranged it." General Butterfield gave the music to the brigade
> Ne> bugler, and the rest is history.
>
> Ne> While there are no offical lyrics to the hauntingly familiar strains of
> Ne> "Taps," here is a commonly accepted version of one verse;
>
> Ne> "Day is done, gone the sun,
> Ne> From the hills, from the lake, from the sky;
> Ne> All is well, safely rest, God is nigh."
>
> Ne> What a comforting lyric as faithful members of the military are laid to
> Ne> rest! And what hope in the acknowledgment that God is NEAR,
> Ne> even-especially-in death!
>
> Ne> At a time when death and evil reigned, the Prophet Isaiah anticipated a
> Ne> day when death itself would die, "Your sun shall no longer go down," he
> Ne> wrote to Israel, "for the Lord will be Your everlasting light." (Isiah
> Ne> 60:20)
>
> Ne> For those who follow Jesus, thestrains of "Taps" are not a funeral
> Ne> dirge but a song of hope. "The days of your mourning shall be ended"
> Ne> (Isaiah 60:20) All is well, God is nigh." - Tim Gustafson
>
> Ne> From Our Daily Bread Bread
>
> Ne> "Sunset in one land is sunrise in another."
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