religion is about god.....not America. I go to church to worship god. Not once had America ever been mentioned in a sermon.
Another great hymn:
"The song links the judgment of the wicked at the end of the age (
Old Testament,
Isaiah 63;
New Testament,
Rev. 19) with the
American Civil War. "
"The "Glory, Hallelujah" tune was a folk hymn developed in the
oral hymn tradition of camp meetings in the southern United States and first documented in the early 1800s. In the first known version, "Canaan's Happy Shore", the text includes the verse "Oh! Brothers will you meet me (3×)/On
Canaan's happy shore?"
[1]and chorus "There we'll shout and give him glory (3×)/For glory is his own";
[2] this developed into the familiar "Glory, glory, hallelujah" chorus by the 1850s. The tune and variants of these words spread across both the southern and northern
United States.
[3]"
"As the "John Brown's Body" song[edit]
"At a flag-raising ceremony at
Fort Warren, near
Boston,
Massachusetts on Sunday May 12, 1861, the
John Brown song, using the well known "Oh! Brothers" tune and the "Glory, Hallelujah" chorus, was publicly played "perhaps for the first time." The
American Civil War had begun the previous month."
"I have read a fiery
gospel writ in burnished rows of steel:
"As ye deal with my
contemners, so with you my grace shall deal";
Let
the Hero, born of
woman, crush
the serpent with his heel,
Since God is marching on.
(
Chorus)
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Since God is marching on.
He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat;
He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment-seat;
Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer Him! Be jubilant, my feet!
Our God is marching on.
The Battle Hymn of the Republic - Wikipedia