Alicia’s Accents September 14
The offertory will be an arrangement of the hymn “I Need Thee Every Hour” (Chalice Hymnal No. 578 ). The words were written in 1872 by Annie Sherwood Hawks as a young wife of 37 years of age. The following Sunday, she gave the words to Dr. Robert Lowry, a Baptist minister, who wrote the melody while seated at the small organ in the living room of his Brooklyn parsonage. Mrs. Hawks gives this history to the poem: “I remember well the morning . . . when in the midst of the daily cares of my home . . . I was so filled with the sense of nearness to the Master that, wondering how one could live without Him either in joy or pain, into my mind, the thought at once taking full possession of me . . . For myself the hymn was prophetic rather than expressive of my own experience at the time it was written, and I do not understand why it so touched the great throbbing heart of humanity.”
May we be renewed through our worship together.
Alicia Adams