Carol of the Bells - Mormon Tabernacle Choir
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The Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Orchestra at Temple Square, Bells on Temple Square, and Band of the United States Air Force Reserve perform the Carol of the Bells by Mykola Leontovych arranged by Barlow Bradford.
Lyrics:
Hark! How the bells,
Sweet silver bells,
All seem to say,
Throw cares away.
Christmas is here, (ding)
Bringing good cheer (dong)
To young and old, (ding)
Meek and the bold. (dong)
Ding, dong, ding, dong (ding)
That is their song, (dong)
With joyful ring (ding)
All caroling. (dong)
One seems to hear (ding)
Words of good cheer (dong)
From ev'rywhere, (ding)
Filling the air, (dong)
O, how they pound, (ding)
Raising the sound, (dong)
O'er hill and dale (ding)
Telling their tale. (dong)
Oh, how happy are their tones!
Gayly they ring
While people sing
Songs of good cheer,
Christmas is here!
Merry, Merry, Merry, Merry Christmas,
(Ding, dong, ding, dong, ding, dong, ding, dong)
Merry, Merry, Merry, Merry Christmas.
(Ding, dong, ding, dong, ding, dong, ding, dong)
On, on they send, (ding)
On without end, (dong)
Their joyful tone (ding)
To ev'ry home. (dong)
Hark! How the bells,
Sweet silver bells,
All seem to say
Throw cares away.
Christmas is here, (ding)
Bringing good cheer, (dong)
To young and old, (ding)
Meek and the bold. (dong)
Ding, dong, ding, dong (ding)
That is their song, (dong)
With joyful ring (ding)
All caroling. (dong)
One seems to hear
Words of good cheer
From ev'rywhere,
Filling the air,
O, how they pound,
Raising the sound,
O'er hill and dale,
Telling their tale.
Ding, dong, ding, dong,
ding, dong, ding, dong,
On on they send, (ding)
On without end,
Their joyful tone
To ev'ry home.
Hark! How the bells,
Sweet silver bells,
All seem to say
Throw cares away.
Christmas is here, (ding)
Bringing good cheer, (dong)
To young and old, (ding)
Meek and the bold. (dong)
Ding, dong, ding, dong (ding)
That is their song, (dong)
With joyful ring (ding)
All caroling. (dong)
One seems to hear (ding)
Words of good cheer (dong)
From ev'rywhere, (ding)
Filling the air, (dong)
O, how they pound, (ding)
Raising the sound, (dong)
O'er hill and dale, (ding)
Telling their tale. (dong)
Oh, how happy are their tones!
Gayly they ring
While people sing
Songs of good cheer,
Christmas is here!
Ringing, ringing,
ringing, ringing,
Bringing Christmas joy!
Christmas joy!
Christmas joy!
Episode 4033a. Aired December 17, 2006
USSR anti-religious campaign (1928–1941) | Wikipedia audio article
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The USSR anti-religious campaign of 1928–1941 was a new phase of anti-religious persecution in the Soviet Union following the anti-religious campaign of 1921–1928. The campaign began in 1929, with the drafting of new legislation that severely prohibited religious activities and called for a heightened attack on religion in order to further disseminate atheism. This had been preceded in 1928 at the fifteenth party congress, where Joseph Stalin criticized the party for failure to produce more active and persuasive anti-religious propaganda. This new phase coincided with the beginning of the forced mass collectivization of agriculture and the nationalization of the few remaining private enterprises.
Many of those who had been arrested in the 1920s would continue to remain in prison throughout the 1930s and beyond.
The main target of the anti-religious campaign in the 1920s and 1930s was the Russian Orthodox Church, which had the largest number of faithful. Nearly all of its clergy, and many of its believers, were shot or sent to labour camps. Theological schools were closed, and church publications were prohibited. More than 85,000 Orthodox priests were shot in 1937 alone. Only a twelfth of the Russian Orthodox Church's priests were left functioning in their parishes by 1941.In the period between 1927 and 1940, the number of Orthodox Churches in the Russian Republic fell from 29,584 to less than 500.The campaign slowed down in the late 1930s and early 1940s, and came to an abrupt end after the commencement of Operation Barbarossa. The challenge produced by the German invasion would ultimately prevent the public withering away of religion in Soviet society.This campaign, like the campaigns of other periods that formed the basis of the USSR's efforts to eliminate religion and replace it with atheism supported with a materialist world view, was accompanied with official claims that there was no religious persecution in the USSR, and that believers who were being targeted were for other reasons. Believers were in fact being widely targeted and persecuted for their belief or promotion of religion, as part of the state's campaign to disseminate atheism, but officially the state claimed that no such persecution existed and that the people being targeted - when they admitted that people were being targeted - were only being attacked for resistance to the state or breaking the law. This guise served Soviet propaganda abroad, where it tried to promote a better image of itself especially in light of the great criticism against it from foreign religious influences.
God's handwriting on the rock, wall, sky and heart
GOD'S HANDWRITING ON THE ROCK, WALL, SKY & HEART
GOD'S HANDWRITING ON THE ROCK
Holy Bible Exodus 32:15-16 The First Book, Ten Commandments was WRITTEN BY GOD on a stone tablet and our hearts
And Moses turned, and went down from the mount, and the two tables of the testimony were in his hand: the tables were written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other were they written.
And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables.
GOD'S HANDWRITING ON THE HEART
Holy Bible Hebrews 8:10 The First Book WRITTEN BY GOD on a living heart
For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
To those who ask, who wrote the Bible, the answer is GOD
GOD'S HANDWRITING ON THE WALL
When God's Handwriting on the rock was ignored by the king, God wrote again with finger on the wall warning the global leader (king) in Babylon: Daniel 5:25-27 And this is the writing that was written, MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN. This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it. Daniel 5:27 TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. The king died the same night according to God's warning. God always has the last Word.
GOD'S HANDWRITING IN THE SKY
I think this is the most remarkable thing that has happened in the last 2000 years. Perhaps there is an indirect correlation between this and the 'walls' of Communism coming down.
“In the city of Tambov, Russia, a hand was writing in the heavens. Everyone could see it for three hours. This happened on June 30, 1975.
Overcome evil with good
Be not over anxious in making your living
It is winter among my people
I give this day for repentance
Bring forth real fruit of repentance
Study God's word
There will not stay one unrighteous with the righteous and not one righteous with unrighteous.
Those that fear me I will protect.
Prepare thyself for the time is near
Behold I come soon
The person who sent this also saw writing in the sky in her own city of Orenburg. Buses stopped to read it and right away the police forbade them to talk about it. Many people gave their hearts to God, including young people. A great warning for all of us. May we be ready when the Lord comes.”
One day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever. Let's just quietly, faithfully serve Him and draw as many as possible into the fold before it is forever too late.
GOD'S WORD CANNOT BE SILENCED
If you try to silence the Book, the rocks will talk, if you suppress the rocks, the sky will declare the Glory of God, if you silence the sky, we will speak!
HOLY BIBLE IS A HIS-STORY BOOK!
Bible is a history of creation (Genesis) to eternity (Revelation). It illustrates the triumph of good over evil. It illustrates the evil life many lived and the consequences they faced as well as the Godly life many lived and the rewards they obtained!
The Bible presents His Story (the love of God for the human race). Our DNA is unique. We inherited it from God who is our Father!
WHO WROTE THE HOLY BIBLE?
Do you really want to know,
Or are you trying to show,
Your story not His Story
Maybe you want popularity
Not unity or solidarity
The question you should ask is
Who inspired this
Holy Book?
It was inspired by the one who shook
Mount Sinai and came down in fire
Millions saw and heard God prior
To you developing an eyelash or a ear
God again spoke openly
In the first century
He said twice
My Son will pay the price
This is my Son
The battle He has won
The Father's voice was like Thunder
Is this God you may still wonder
God spoke in public audibly
The Bible is not 1 man's story!
It is not imaginary
Or a tale handed by a fairy
In the 6th century
A book written by just 1 cannot be trusted
By 1 who committed adultery and lusted
Bible was written by Holy men
Who recorded the Truth that was given
From creation
To Christ's resurrection
From the creation of man to eternity
It's the Owners Manual so you don't perish chasing vanity
There is one life, 'twill soon be past
Only what's done for Christ will last
With Christ you are a hero
Without Him you are a zero
With Jesus in you your soul can breathe
And your spirit's heart can beat
Without Christ your soul is dead
And there is no hope eternally until you repent
As I live saith the Lord Jesus Christ
God Almighty wants you to find true delight
In worshipping the True Creator
And your Heaveny Father
Man made rocks and images won't save you
It's a mirage in the desert, maybe you didn't have a clue
God is not in a square rock or statue
God lives far above you
Way beyond the blue
Don't settle for vain objects
And man made gadgets