[Magdalen] news from home

[Jay Weigel]

Oh, Margaret, now you've done it! When I was a kid, one of our local radio
stations used to broadcast a program of hymns sung by John Charles Thomas,
the opera singer. He was a Methodist minister's kid and had a seemingly
inexhaustible trove of fine old gospel hymns, and one of his apparent
favorites was "Let the Lower Lights Be Burning." I can still hear that fine
Welsh baritone booming....

Brightly beams our Father's mercy
>From His lighthouse evermore
But to us he gives the keeping
Of the lights along the shore.
Let the lower lights be burning!
Send a gleam across the wave.
Some poor fainting, struggling seaman
You may rescue, you may save.

On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 6:30 PM, ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> When I was little, we got lots&lots of sermons about lighthouses
> and foghorns.
>
> Some examples:
> at some point the Congregational Church in Rye burned down.
> It was located on a hill. The next morning the fishermen who
> navigated by sighting the white steeple couldn't find their way
> back to the harbor and home.
>
> and all the sermons about people heeding (or not heeding)
> the foghorn warnings and ending up saved (or dead). And
> what did that foghorn represent, children?
> -M
>