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Our Savior' S Love - Mormon Doctrine Studies - Posted: 5th Apr, 2014 - 3:12pm
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Hymn History
Post Date: 28th Oct, 2009 - 12:17am / Post ID: #
Our Savior's Love
Our Savior's Love
The history behind "Our Savior's Love": Edward LeRoy Hart was a professor of English at Brigham Young University for thirty years and held a Fulbright Fellowship for study in Pakistan. Edward stated that the hymn "Our Savior's Love" grew out of a figure of speech. "The simile," he said, "goes back to seeing people in a fabric or clothing store take material outside and into the sunlight to test its color in the only true or "perfect" source of light. In the same way, the only true test of love is the source, our Savior's love." In 1977 the Church Music Committee asked composer Crawford Gates to create a setting for Brother Hart's text. Crawford says of the experience, "Though I am aware that all creativity comes from God, perhaps three times in my career I have been very aware of melodic ideas coming as a direct gift from Him. This was one of those times." This program includes renditions of the hymn by the following artists: Brigham Young University's Young Ambassadors, Todd McCabe and April Moriarty, Michael Dowdle, The Gibbons Family, Kay Hicks Ward and Meredith Campbell, Clayne Robison, Doug Bush, and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square.
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Savior's Love
Here is a good quote about the Love of the Savior:
QUOTE "The Savior's invitation is clear and direct, and importantly for us, it is constant: 'Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden.. .. Take my yoke upon you,. .. For. .. My burden is light' (Matthew 11:28-30). This is the Lord's promise to me and to you. "My prayer for each of us is that we will remember when the Lord has spoken His peace to us and has encircled us in the arms of His love. And just as important, will you, if you haven't felt that love for a while, seek to see it and feel it as you go about the ordinary tasks of your life. As you do this, over the days and months and years of your life, the memories of those interactions with the Lord will become sweet gifts to open a second time--or many times--to bolster you when life is difficult. " 'Peace I give unto you,' the Lord promises, 'not as the world giveth, give I unto you' (John 14:27). Peace. Strength. It is what we long for and what is possible. We only need to turn toward His reaching arms."
(Kathleen H. Hughes, "Remembering the Lord's Love," Ensign, Nov. 2006, 112)
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Wonderful words, our Savior is such a special individual that will always stand by us and help us to return to Father. His love is beyond words.
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