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This song makes tears roll down my cheeks anytime I sing it. It's very heart touching and shows that humility, love and absolute trust in God are the most important things required to inspire any human. Thank You LORD for giving him the inspiration to write this song. It's a huge blessing to me.
This song melts me every time I sing it. Beautiful and powerful words. Yes it humbles me, makes me feel loved and closer to God and my church family. Thank You Heavenly Father.
This is an inspirational hymn, it always makes me humble myself in the Lord and also encourages me to love mankind more and more. I thank Jehovah God for blessed me to have a serious relationship with His only begotten son Our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
Orphaned when he was 12, then forced to work 14 hrs/day in a sweatshop, John Fawcett learned to read by candlelight. He was converted at 16 under the preaching of George Whitefield, and he was ordained a Baptist minister at the age of 25. He began his ministry at a poor church in Wainsgate in northern England. The small congregation could only afford to pay him a minimal salary, partly in potatoes and wool.
After 7 years of ministry, Fawcett received a call to the prestigious Carter's Lane Church in London. But as he was saying his farewells [with all his family's belongings already on the wagon] and saw the tears on the faces of his people, he changed his mind and decided to stay.
Not long afterward, he wrote this hymn for the congregation at Wainsgate. He recognized that the bond of love he knew there was worth more than any material wealth. - Great Songs of Faith by Brown & Norton
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The 3rd line of the 1st stanza originally says:
The fellowship of kindred minds
Another version of the 1st line of the 3rd stanza says:
We share each other's woes,
There is an additional stanza before the last stanza:
This glorious hope revives
Our courage by the way;
While each in expectation lives,
And longs to see the day.
At the end of January 1985 I flew back to the United States from Taipei. As soon as the plane took off, I already knew that the home meetings would develop to the present stage. At first the home meetings recovered some who had not been meeting for a long time. Those who had not met for twenty or thirty years came back to the meetings. How dear it was when they all came together, and how sweet it was to sing,
"Blest be the tie that binds
Our hearts in Christian love....
And perfect love and oneness reign
Through all eternity."
Hymns, #860
If an old sister who had not been meeting for twenty years had sung this song, she would surely have burst into tears, and everyone else with her. However, beautiful flowers fade, a full moon wanes, and good things do not last. The meeting was good the first time, the second time, the third time, but by the fourth time it had become tasteless. And by the fifth time old wives' fables had begun.
In practice, we still have many natural concepts. We like the Lord's Day meetings because we can sit and listen to the preaching of experienced brothers. The more we listen, the more we enjoy. In contrast, we do not like the small group meetings. At first, the small group meetings recovered some who had not been meeting for a long time. It was so dear when some who had not met for twenty or thirty years came back, and it was so sweet to sing, "Blest be the tie that binds / Our hearts in Christian love; / The fellowship our spirit finds / Is like to that above" (Hymns, #860). When a sister who had not been meeting for twenty years sang this song, she burst into tears along with everyone else. However, beautiful flowers fade, a full moon wanes, and good things do not last. This kind of meeting was good the first, second, and even the third time, but by the fourth time the meeting was rather tasteless, and old-womanish myths began to creep in by the fifth time (1 Tim. 4:7). Because of this, many saints who desired to seek the Lord felt that the small group meetings were not so enjoyable.