When I fall on my knees, With my face to the rising sun, O Lord have mercy on me.
When I was in Academy our choir leader changed the words to read, "when I fall on my knees, with my face to the Lord on high . . . . " When we sing it at church I sometimes insert those words or remain silent during that portion. Is this nit-picky? Am I a fanatic or what? Why should I sing words that are contrary to what we, as a people believe in? How did it ever get into the hymnal?
A lady tried to correct me in Sabbath school today and said that the people that wrote the song were uneducated people from the south, that this is a Negro spiritual and the slaves were getting ready to go out into the field. I replied that the people that should have edited this song out of the hymnals were not uneducated slaves and #2 how does that fit with them breaking bread and drinking wine down on their knees facing the rising sun ? That sounds to me like something spiritual going on.