Comments on: Father! Lead Me Out of Darkness http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2012/04/24/father-lead-me-out-of-darkness/ Where our past is never very long ago Sat, 25 May 2013 06:15:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Melanie http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2012/04/24/father-lead-me-out-of-darkness/comment-page-1/#comment-218215 Melanie Tue, 24 Apr 2012 21:47:08 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=17279#comment-218215 I will print this out and put it by my bedside.There is a shadow of the hymn on p. 220 Lord, I Would Follow Thee – but there is an extra line in the above poem and it doesn’t fit completely.

]]> By: Mark B. http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2012/04/24/father-lead-me-out-of-darkness/comment-page-1/#comment-218186 Mark B. Tue, 24 Apr 2012 19:11:40 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=17279#comment-218186 Interesting. Most of that appears in our hymnals as “Lead Me Into Life Eternal”–the last two verses of the hymn are identical to the last stanza of the poem. But the first verse of the hymn takes pieces from other lines of the poem and rearranges them.

Elder Widtsoe was a favorite of my father’s–when Elder Widtsoe would visit my grandfather, a stake president in Arizona and a scientist, the two would have conversations late into the night on a whole range of subjects, and my dad would hang around as long as he could so he could listen in.

My dad commented once on that last line: Give me faith, the greater knowledge–science and religion in their proper order, in one quick phrase!

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