Show I A Hymn Js o rl r B y CLINT BONNeR 4 Nearer My God Cod To Thee A If Dying Actress Reads Read The Bible In liST 1837 ft a tall beautiful woman with regular lectures feature walked off oft the London stage stace broken la to health When she aha was waa fly fir years yean old her ber mother othar had bad died At tuberculosis Her only sister luter lad Had 4 contracted the disease and now DOW Sarah Flow Flow- er r Adams Adama bad had played her ber last role rol u aa Lady Partially regaining her ber health Mrs Mra Adama Adams turned to writing verse dramatic poems poem and hymns hymn drawing themes them for the lbs latter from the Bible In 1140 litO when whan h ahe was waa 35 Iii years old the actress was waa reading the book boot of or Genesis Genes when aha ah earns earn across the th story tofT of ef Jacob at t Bethel Thai Th waa was born bona the theme them for what baa hu been called the C. greatest hymn byma ever nr written by a woman It wit waa mon among thirteen from her ber pen pente te I. appear la lit print the th following year While mo arming aiming her ulster sister enisa mUla Mrs lira Mama Adams Nearer Hearst my God te to The Thee N. N Nearer to Thee Een en though It be he a cross crol That Ith me m. met Still all my song lOng shall h. h be b. N. N Nearer my God Qed to Thee Though Ilk Ilk Ilki the wand wanderer The sun un gone pons down be be over m me M My rest NIt a atone ton Yet In my dreams dream Id I'd be b. Nearer Neary N. N my God to Thee broke completely She lingered two years year after her ber sister fluter diot In lit 1818 1848 On OD September 19 19 1901 1101 every arery city In ID America paused In silent prayer for fl five fire minutes minute and ana to sing ID the tb assassinated William leys ley's favorite favorit hymn He Do had whispered Its Ita title Uti u as a dying prayer Nearer My to Th Thee hit haa rarely been beeD sung lun since the th sinking of the th luxury liner Titanic Ti In ID April 1913 without associating It with that marine marin disaster ter Aa As the We f. f few life m. boats pulled away away with their cargo CArlO of 1100 all aU hope hop was waa lost loat for those thaw left Ion on oa deck The Th ships ship's band went do down playing a composition by Low ell Mason the dean of ot hymn tune writers u aa 1600 helpless souls sang Bang the th words of a dying actress who bo had bad read the lb DIM Bible and like Uk J Jacot Jacol Jacott t at t Bethel Dethel had bad a vision of being drawn f Th There let It the th way appear Steps Step unto heaven havn All that Thou me me In mercy moy given Angels Angela to beckon bokon me m. N N Nearer rr my God to The I Then with my waking thoughts Bright with Thy praise pral Out of my tony stony Bethel I Ill I'll II raise ralee 80 So by my woos woe to b be b. Nearer my God to Thus The t r J Or Or If on Joyful wing Cleaving the ek sky eky 1 t Sun Bun moon and nd stars atara forgot Upward I 1 fly ny still till all 11 my song shall ahall b be be N. N Nearer my God to The Th mI m- m I tim ti |