tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4933953612542383782.post1559065305179269058..comments2024-03-29T07:30:20.154-04:00Comments on Hymns With A Message: HELP SOMEBODY TODAYBarry Kauffmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07015588684956715869noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4933953612542383782.post-7067790145769252492019-12-30T00:14:31.798-05:002019-12-30T00:14:31.798-05:00I am 85 years old and am writing a book about the ...I am 85 years old and am writing a book about the stories behind our hymns--who wrote them, when and why they wrote them. <br /><br />This is a hymn on which I grew up singing in a small Methodist church in rural North Carolina in the '40's. It wold be followed by the request for anyone to name a family who was in dire need. Then a motion wold be made to either send them a sack of pinto beans, a bushel of potatoes, and some flour and corn meal; or some winter coats and shoes. We did not know the meaning of the word "social justice." This was simply living out the Parable of the Good Smaritan and Matthew 25. It is not considered a "sophisticated" hymn, but it taught me as a child to "look all around me, find someone in need." I think that this song contrbuted to my being called to ordained ministry at age sixteen. <br /><br />Dr. Donald W. Haynes<br />retired United Methodist clergyDon Hayneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15328486440928498719noreply@blogger.com