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Sunday, January 18, 2015

Joy to the World

Know Your Medal of Honor Recipients:

Corporal Alexander Scott (US Army) received his Medal of Honor for his actions on July 9, 1864, at Monocacy, Maryland. His citation reads:

Under a very heavy fire of the enemy saved the national flag of his regiment from capture.

Private George D. Scott (US Army) received his Medal of Honor for his actions on June 25-26, 1876, at Little Big Horn, Montana. His citation reads:

Voluntarily brought water to the wounded under fire.

Sergeant John M. Scott (US Army) received his Medal of Honor for his actions during April 1862, in Georgia. His citation reads:

One of the 19 of 22 men (including 2 civilians) who, by direction of Gen. Mitchell (or Buell), penetrated nearly 200 miles south into enemy territory and captured a railroad train at Big Shanty, Ga., and attempted to destroy the bridges and track between Chattanooga and Atlanta.


The I’m just sayin… Hymn of the Week

Joy To the World

This is a song typically considered a “Christmas Song”, but I think it should be played all year long. My friends at Wikipedia tell me that the words were written by Isaac Watts and are based off the second half of Psalm 98. The music, it is said, was adapted from an older melody written by George Frideric Handel. You can read more about the song here.

Joy to the world! The Lord has come;
Let earth receive her King;
Let every heart prepare Him room,
And heaven and nature sing,
And heaven and nature sing,
And heaven, and heaven, and nature sing.

Joy to the earth! The Savior reigns;
Let men their songs employ;
While fields and floods, rocks, hills, and plains
Repeat the sounding joy,
Repeat the sounding joy,
Repeat, repeat the sounding joy.

No more let sins and sorrows grow,
Nor thorns infest the ground;
He comes to make His blessings flow
Far as the curse is found,
Far as the curse is found,
Far as, far as, the curse is found.

He rules the world with truth and grace,
And makes the nations prove
The glories of His righteousness,
And wonders of His love,
And wonders of His love,
And wonders, wonders, of His love.
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