TheThirdandReformedAdam
Puritan Board Freshman
I've enjoyed listening to and singing this hymn in my past, and I'm just curious if anyone is strongly opposed to/accepting of it. I noticed that it is not in the Trinity Hymnal, and I wondered if there is any reformed perspective on it. I understand that it was written by a Unitarian, Sarah Flower Adams, but does anyone believe the hymn itself errs doctrinally?
For any who have not heard it before:
For any who have not heard it before:
Nearer, my God, to Thee, nearer to Thee!
E'en though it be a cross that raiseth me;
Still all my song shall be nearer, my God, to Thee,
Chorus: Nearer, my God, to Thee, nearer to Thee!
Though like the wanderer, the sun gone down,
Darkness be over me, my rest a stone;
Yet in my dreams I'd be nearer, my God, to Thee,
Nearer, etc.
There let the way appear steps unto heav'n;
All that Thou sendest me in mercy giv'n;
Angels to beckon me nearer, my God, to Thee,
Nearer, etc.
Then with my waking thoughts bright with Thy praise,
Out of my stony griefs Bethel I'll raise;
So by my woes to be nearer, my God, to Thee,
Nearer, etc.
Or if on joyful wing, cleaving the sky,
Sun, moon, and stars forgot, upwards I fly,
Still all my song shall be, nearer, my God, to Thee,
Nearer, etc.