... late in 1943, and Erle and the other missionaries were executed. Hymn: “So Send I You,” by Margaret Clarkson. Seen by many as one of the greatest missionary hymns of the twentieth century, this beautiful and moving piece was written out of the ... tremendous loneliness and isolation endured by Clarkson (b. 1915) while living at a logging camp in Ontario. The words of this hymn are commanding and powerful. The ...
... future. Instead, allow the text to move your teaching at its own pace and on its own terms. Illustrating the Text God is on his throne and in control of this world. Hymn: “O Father, You Are Sovereign,” by Edith Margaret Clarkson. Hymn writing was Clarkson’s first love, from her publication of Let’s Listen to Music in 1947 until her passing in 2008. It sprang from a lifetime of serious Bible study, challenging personal experiences, and a disciplined lyrical expression. At its 1992 national convention ...
... ‘Zero' on Christ Report", USA Today, Nov. 28, 1995. 4 Inspiring Quotations, Compiled by Albert M. Wells, Jr., p. 81. 5 "A Risky Journey to Bethlehem," The Atlanta Journal, December 23, 1995. 6 Cited by Charles R. Swindoll, Growing Deep in the Christian Life, p. 129. 7 Poem by E. Margaret Clarkson
... , often filled with agonizing mental and emotional torment. In fact, said Madeline L'Engle, the best of her books were written just after the worst times of her life! As they talked, each experienced the growing realization of what poet and hymn-writer, Margaret Clarkson, identified when she penned Grace Grows Best in Winter (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1984). More than that, they also found that the turning point leading out of the dark night of the soul was, for each of them, always a moment of repentance ...
... disciples he says to us this morning: “As the Father has sent me, so send I you.” Some have called this song the “greatest missionary hymn of the 20th century.” It was written in 1954 by a Canadian school teacher by the name of Margaret Clarkson. Her physical disabilities prevented her from becoming a missionary on some foreign field, but when she read today’s text she was convicted: her lonely job as a school teacher in a remote lumber camp in northern Ontario, Canada was to be her mission field ...
