Most hymnbooks include John Mason...
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Most hymnbooks include John Mason Neale's translation of "All Glory, Laud, And Honor," but omit the verse which reads: "O Lord, be thou the rider
And we the little ass,
That to God's holy city
Together we may pass." As T. S. Eliot observed, most people "are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves." No wonder this verse has been edited out! Who wants to sing of a desire to be an ass for Christ? Yet, Paul the apostle often referred to himself as the lowliest of titles, "a slave of Christ," and in this passage described himself as "the foremost" of sinners (v. 15).
-- Bristow
And we the little ass,
That to God's holy city
Together we may pass." As T. S. Eliot observed, most people "are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves." No wonder this verse has been edited out! Who wants to sing of a desire to be an ass for Christ? Yet, Paul the apostle often referred to himself as the lowliest of titles, "a slave of Christ," and in this passage described himself as "the foremost" of sinners (v. 15).
-- Bristow
