![]() "They have Moses and the prophets," replied Abraham, "let them listen to them." "Then I beg of you, Father," replied the other, "to send him to my father's house for I have five brothers that he may entreat them so that they may not come into this place of torment." Besides all this, a huge chasm lies between us and you so that those who might desire to go from here towards you cannot do so neither can any come to us from where you are." "Child," said Abraham, in reply, "remember that you exhausted your pleasures during your lifetime and Lazarus in the same way, his sufferings but now here he is comforted while you are agonized. And, streiking out, he said, "Father Abraham, have pity on me and send Lazarus thither to dip the top of his finger in water, and cool my tongue for I am in torture in this flame!" And, in the spirit land, being in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. The rich man also died, and he was buried. By-and-by, however, the beggar died and was conveyed by the angels into Abraham's bosom. And there was a beggar named Lazarus, who covered with sores, was laid before his gate, and he longed to feed on the broken pieces which were thrown from the rich man's table but, instead, the dogs came and licked his sores. There was once a man who was rich and arrayed himself in purple and fine linen and who every day lived in pleasure and luxury. We read from the Ferrar Fenton translation: Today our lesson is based on the 16th Chapter of Luke, 19th Verse to the end of the chapter. Our subject is "HOME OF THE SOUL AFTER DEATH" - "The Condition of the Soul after Death." Our subject this afternoon is one that we believe everyone in this room is interested in - we might say, people everywhere. This is the eleventh lesson in the course "MYSTERIES OF THE FOUR GOSPELS". This is the these of the song without words O'er all the beauty of skies smiling clear ģ. Beautiful flowers all sparkling with dew, It is Number 273, "Beautiful Season of Joy."Ģ. You may not all be familiar with this song. Our poet Riley said, "Every cloud has a silver lining and I turn my clouds inside out to see them shining." So like old Job, "When they say unto you, there is casting down, thou shalt say, lift it up." So today I say our lesson is rather gruesome, but we are going to sing a song that can be used as an angle that "Spring has come!" (laughter) We are going to sing about it. So we find that in our experience, when things look darkest, then the daylight is just ahead. after they leave the body probably.Ībraham Lincoln, our great president, always tried to see something happy in every condition, especially a gruesome condition. It is the lesson given by Jesus about the condition of some persons after they are dead. Our lesson today is a rather gruesome one. Naxos: 8557798.Download PDF of this lesson CHARLES FILLMORE: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra David Lloyd-Jones (conductor). Later that year, Boult conducted the British premiere at Bristol’s Colston Hall. ![]() It was first performed by the New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra in June 1939 under the baton of Sir Adrian Boult. Much like The Lark Ascending and Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, the Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus contains superbly sumptuous string writing, with sweeping melodies stretching across the orchestra, underpinned by deep and resonant harmonies. You may know many other names, perhaps ‘The Star of the County Down’. In the case of his Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus, the inspiration was less literal.Īs the composer himself explained, "These variants are not exact replicas of traditional tunes but rather reminiscences of various versions in my own collection and those of others." The original tune in question, called ‘Dives and Lazarus’, is referenced in sixteenth-century writings but could well have been written earlier than that, and is a musical depiction of the new Testament story of the rich man and the beggar. Many of Vaughan Williams’s most famous compositions were direct settings of famous or newly discovered folk melodies.
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