Through His Song of Creation God came to
know Himself;
And by singing His praise men come to know
who He is—Whole-God-Perfect-Man.
Let us, the people, sing.
‘Let Us The People Sing‘ [PDF 7MB]
PREFACE
The business of real art has always been to entertain God with praise of God as Man and with tales of the love-relationships of men to God. The absorption of the artist with Man as Man is a recent aberration.
As the Goal of every man and woman is to realize God as Self, Man unrelated to God is as meaningless as life unrelated to breath.
The composition of these songs began as an instruction in true relationship for children, and then was widened in scope to a general entertainment. Having no models in contemporary English to work from, no body of work from which to draw inspiration, it being several hundred years since we have made songs directly in God’s praise, they are necessarily raw: beginnings always are—but they are beginnings.
Some of the children who hear and sing these songs will, when they grow up, make better ones—and so on for seven hundred years when God-Man will again visit us, and there will be Master- singers among us who will entertain Him and so ease for a moment the burden He bears. After His conversations with His saints there is nothing God loves more than good entertainment.
Since, nowdays, few people own a musical instrument, and scarcely anyone can read notation without the aid of one, there is no point in increasing the cost of this book by printing the tunes that I have used in presenting these songs to God-Man. Any tune that fits the words and does not cover them and is within one’s voice range will do.
Ahmednagar, India.
F.B.
Ahmednagar,
India.
1962.
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