{"id":112665,"date":"2023-04-24T16:21:02","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T16:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=112665"},"modified":"2023-04-24T16:21:56","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T16:21:56","slug":"songs-of-praise-story-behind-the-song-what-a-friend-we-have-in-jesus-by-charles-schokman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/songs-of-praise-story-behind-the-song-what-a-friend-we-have-in-jesus-by-charles-schokman\/","title":{"rendered":"SONGS OF PRAISE &#8211; STORY BEHIND THE SONG \u201cWhat a Friend We Have in Jesus\u201d &#8211; by Charles Schokman"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>SONGS OF PRAISE &#8211; STORY BEHIND THE SONG\u00a0\u201cWhat a Friend We Have in Jesus\u201d &#8211; <span style=\"color: #800080;\">by Charles Schokman<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-112667 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/SONGS-OF-PRAISE-STORY-BEHIND-THE-SONG-What-a-Friend-We-Have-in-Jesus-by-Charles-Schokman-1-e1682353090286.png\" alt=\"SONGS OF PRAISE - STORY BEHIND THE SONG\u00a0\u201cWhat a Friend We Have in Jesus\u201d - by Charles Schokman\" width=\"600\" height=\"312\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Some of our best-loved hymns were written in times of great sadness. \u201cWhat a Friend We Have in Jesus\u201d is one such song.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Despite the pain, many hymn writers were able to find comfort in the arms of Jesus and point others to this source of unshakable joy with their music.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">One of the most helpful hymns in popular use is Joseph Scriven\u2019s hymn on the friendship of Jesus, the comforter and burden-bearer. Scriven (1820-1886) was a native of Dublin, Ireland, born in 1820. He graduated from Trinity College in his native\u00a0city. At the age of twenty-five he emigrated to Canada, and lived there until his death at Port Hope on Lake Ontario, October 10, 1886.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">When a young man, he was engaged to be married to a lady whom he had known and loved for a long time. All preparations had been made for the wedding ceremony and the date had been fixed. But shortly before the wedding day arrived his promised bride was accidentally drowned, and he was plunged into the deepest sorrow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">The grief was more than he could bear, so Joseph moved to\u00a0Canada to start over. There, he met and fell in love again, with Eliza Rice, and\u00a0planned to be married, again. It is unthinkable that you could lose so much in one one lifetime but weeks\u00a0before they were to be wed, Eliza became sick and died from her illness. Joseph was only 25<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LarFhGeE-ac\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">From this heartache, and through faith in his God, a mission was born. Joseph took a vow of\u00a0poverty \u00a0and began to help the poor and the\u00a0handicapped in any\u00a0way he could. For ten years he made himself\u00a0available come alongside those who were in need and he found comfort and purpose in serving.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Then, unbelievably, heartache would strike again! His mother, still in Ireland and Scriven in Canada became very ill and he did not have the funds to help\u00a0her or to go to be with her. He penned the words to this poem for her and it has since comforted, encouraged and uplifted generations! \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><em>What a Friend we have in Jesus,\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/em><em>All our sins and griefs to bear!<\/em><em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/h4>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">How it came to be first published is not known, as he had not intended it for general use.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Indeed, for some time after it was printed its authorship was unknown, being sometimes incorrectly attributed to Dr. Horatius Bonar. After Scriven\u2019s death, however, he became recognized as the author of the hymn that has blessed so many thousands of believers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Let us join in singing of this hymn being assured that Prayer still works!\u00a0\u00a0He has not forsaken us; \u00a0He\u00a0 never will.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-112666 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/SONGS-OF-PRAISE-STORY-BEHIND-THE-SONG-What-a-Friend-We-Have-in-Jesus-by-Charles-Schokman-2.png\" alt=\"SONGS OF PRAISE - STORY BEHIND THE SONG\u00a0\u201cWhat a Friend We Have in Jesus\u201d - by Charles Schokman\" width=\"490\" height=\"372\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SONGS OF PRAISE &#8211; STORY BEHIND THE SONG\u00a0\u201cWhat a Friend We Have in Jesus\u201d &#8211; by Charles Schokman Some of our best-loved hymns were written in times of great sadness. \u201cWhat a Friend We Have in Jesus\u201d is one such song. 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