Oh, the bitter shame and sorrow

As a "retired" English teacher, I would not restrict using words such as Thee for the young peoples' sake. Their minds are young and can grasp new vocabulary easily. It is cheating them of learning, knowledge, and history. "Thee" and "thou" represent forms of formal address, which young people should learn, because there is little formal address left in their world--anything goes. The thinking on this concept of not using unfamiliar words is faulty by my understanding. We use the King James Bible for most study, and our children have no problems with the language once they become familiar with it. In fact, it is an enriching experience as far as language and Bible study is concerned.

A long lost hymn. I finally found today.

This is a beautiful song with a strong message to it. it has good reminder of how we should be the last verse. This song came from a hymn book called Christ in Song don't know if it still is around. It is a wonderful hymn book with lots of old hymn's including this one.

Such a precious song! Lord I want to dwell more in You and less in myself!

I LOVE THIS HYMN, STANZA 4 IS WHERE I WANT TO DWELL.

Please see Denis' comment on 9/8/2013 and store it in your memory.

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Theodore Monod was a French Protestant Pastor who initially studied law but then trained for the ministry at Western Theological Seminary in Alleghany, PA. From 1860 - 1863 he labored among the French Canadians in Illinois. He returned to Paris and his father’s pastorate in 1875. He was a popular speaker at the Keswick Camp meetings. Among the books he wrote are "Looking To Jesus", "The Christian's Cross", "Life More Abundant" and "The Gift of God". Some of his sermons are on the internet. - path2prayer

Mo­nod wrote the words of this song, in Eng­lish, dur­ing a ser­ies of con­se­cra­tion meet­ings in Broad­lands, Hamp­shire, Eng­land, in July 1874. At the close of the meet­ings, he gave them to Lord Mount-Tem­ple, who had them print­ed on a prog­ram card for a ser­ies of sim­i­lar meet­ings at Ox­ford in Oc­to­ber 1874. - cyberhymnal

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The following is his sharing on Hebrews 8:10-12

We all need two conversions. First of all, we need to be converted from the natural man to the spiritual man, and in the second place, we need to be converted from the spiritual man to the natural man, until the spiritual man becomes a natural life, and the burden is opportunity and the bondage is delight.

Beautiful & touching hymn. I want to comment that I am a young person & using old terms like "thee" does not take away any meaning for me. Please share with young people :)

Dear Katie, (Warragul Vic) et al.

I am an experienced teacher and I could not agree more with you!

To follow up on what Katie has mentioned, linguistically speaking, "Thee" is actually the informal way of saying "You." Overtime, the English language has kept the formal and dropped the informal. But this just shows how close we are to the Lord, and what a friend He is to us!

There is not much in this that young people can't understand. I suggest a quick explanation, that this song was written a long time ago by someone who loved Jesus as much as we do today, and back then a person talking to one other person called them 'thee' instead of 'you'. We mutilate a lot of beautiful hymns in the name of making them accessible, often the result changes the very theology not to mention disrespecting the hymn writer's intentions. I think younger people are more able to accommodate than we give them credit for being. And after all, you and I can understand 'thee', but it hasn't been in use in our lifetime either!