Blessed Assurance

[@pekolucky]

The ending of this film is so moving. It brought tears to this old man.

[@jillmiller2936]

Love. This. Old. Hymn!! Grew. Up listening on this on the radio, And. Singing this. In. Church!!

[@mayoje74]

The hungry man on the doorstep taking time to say Grace before he eats brought is powerful.

[@larryhamsing4140]

I agree. Even more powerful was the fact he gave thanks to the Lord.

[@riverduck3]

We sang this so often in church growing up. I miss those old hymns.

[@mayoje74]

This clip gives me goosebumps each time I watch it. It's as if I'm seeing the world my grandparents knew when they were young adults. Parts of it (the hymn, the simple harmony, the dirt roads and fields) are recognizable from my own childhood. Older people often lament that no one visits their neighbors anymore. It seems this world is, sadly, gone forever.

[@ivansteinke6458]

This movie captures the old small town America we used to know better than any other motion picture in the entire history of the art. A masterpiece.

[@jdb10715]

Take us back dear Lord to those places in the heart which draw us closer and closer to you.

[@gacj2010]

This was a beautiful beautiful story of love , forgiveness and wonder

[@buddy51]

I'm not at all a religious person, but I love this film and especially the breathtaking final scene. This opening is amazing as well.

[@briandelaney9710]

My Catholic mother who grew up among Methodists and Baptists sang this with gusto when we saw this in the theatre

[@MifuneBoBune]

I've seen almost all of these places in Waxahachie and was raised in exactly this, but a much smaller town. My grandfather was a young man making $10 a week in 1935 and raising a family. My grandmother had a milk cow in the back yard, grew a garden and canned vegetables. She also fed the hobos when they came to the back door, just like the scene in this movie. Most of us are a product of this very hard time and of the character it built in those people who are mostly gone now. Be grateful.

[@ibrake4butterflies]

This is a beautiful movie but also a perfect movie in its story telling. The opening sets us up for the movie. Very subtle scenes during this song with all the main characters. Oh...this song. Yes, please and God bless.

[@mcoo465]

you're so right! what a great director...he's showing little snippets of the characters in the story. well done.

[@ibrake4butterflies]

They don’t make them like the anymore. No big box office coin. This movie is perfect.

[@MifuneBoBune]

My grandmother used to feed the hobos at the back porch during the Great Depression just like the scene in this movie. Just this scene reminds me of how far we've fallen from the grace that was once ours in this nation.

[@S0lidState]

My mother tells me how strangers would sometimes walk up to your home during the 1930's-40's and ask if they can do a favor for a meal, ect, and nobody freaked out and called the cops.

[@janfuger1517]

Solid State My mother used to tell me how there was a mark placed on the fence that indicated that someone in the house would feed you if you were hungry.

[@dgray611]

@@janfuger1517 The Hobo Code was addressed in an episode of Mad Men. Here a hobo gives young Don Draper an education. kzbin.info/www/bejne/o2WXoJ5jocShoZI

[@williamshelton4150]

My late grandmother did the same during the Depression. She would turn over in her grave if I ever denied the hospitality of my house to a person in need or want.

[@jondstewart]

And unless it was Sunday dinner, you didn’t have a meal of animal protein, carbs, veggies, and bread. You were lucky if you got beans and bread to fill you up.

[@winniesthird]

Thanks for posting! This is one of the strongest, purest, openings ever to a film. The chorus, the song, the pictures- so powerful. I still get chills!

[@kennethbredow3098]

Indeed this song has graced me today!

[@johnasquith9578]

Wonderful story reminded me of my childhood in 1950s Australia - same hymns slightly different ceremony - we were not allowed to drink the wine. Went through the south on a visit 2 years ago - my wife grew up in Pittsburgh Pa. where the ceremony was similar.

[@mcoo465]

this is such a beautiful beginning to a beautiful film. Thanks for posting this video! It has encouraged me to seek out other hymns on You Tube.

[@KSCrosby]

Very moving and powerful film. I wish we all lived by faith today as people did then. Sometimes I think another Depression would do us good and build character in all of us.

[@brians5750]

Notice that song then I started to like that song when I saw this movie. Had been wanting to sing that song at church until one day someone requested to sing that song then found out about it. I started requesting to sing that song at Church.

[@rayrobinson3687]

Jesus IS Mine..... that's said it's All

[@cisoto17]

A great song from one of my favorite movies

[@johnyzero2000]

Amazing this was back when they actually made good movies!

[@mjt2231]

Brilliant film!!!

[@TTundragrizzly]

One of my favorites.

[@liltxgal98]

Every time I take a road trip to Waxahachie I just soak in the small town spirit though it has grown leaps and bounds still my idea of perfect "little town"

[@missv5439]

Heart Touching

[@jondstewart]

Ever notice how during the Great Depression, just eating well was a huge privilege? Eating in a restaurant was a huge luxury, Ed Harris’ family had little food on the table, the black sharecropper family had a pot of beans and skillet cornbread, and Sally Field’s family had fried chicken, potatoes, gravy, okra, and biscuits. Probably ate beans, cornbread, and whatever veggies and fruits they had canned the rest of the week.

[@thomasjefferson6]

This performance of this hymn for this film is done with remarkable accuracy 1) the tempo- it is not sung too fast, but with reverence and great feeling, the way it is supposed to be sung, and the way hymns were once sung in churches all over America 2) the harmony- unlike many pieces of contemporary church music, hymns such as this had structure to go with great melody, and it is sung this way in this performance 3) the hymn is correct to the time period; Blessed Assurance (little sung or known today) was very popular in the 1930s in many churches. The demise of hymns, hymn singing, and choirs in thousands of churches, and their replacement with contemporary songs (which usually lack harmony, structured melody (meter), and poetry (structured, with rhyme) as a cultural phenomenon has been little studied. Perhaps it is due to the demise of the King James Bible, on which so many of these hymns were drawn for their inspiration, and the rise of contemporary Christian pop/rock music. In many instances, hymns have simply been discarded without any consideration for congregations who may wish to have retained them. In other instances, they have been re-written and corrupted by making the words "gender-neutral" so as to bring them into line with contemporary politics, feminism, and the gender-neutral movement in the broader society.

[@johnprovince5304]

Very powerful imagery and memories to those of us of a certain age.

[@magicman1433]

Nestor Almendros was one of the greats!

[@katieobrien8423]

To this day I am struck by the inequity of the dinner tables.

[@MessiahJesusisLord]

1984 the year i was BORN :)

[@w3tno]

Thank you for your comment. What you are pointing out is that the author of the lyrics, Fanny Crosby, became blind at the age of six weeks.

[@CCCooperAgency]

Don’t Throw It All Away So, friends, we can now-without hesitation-walk right up to God, into “the Holy Place.” Jesus has cleared the way by the blood of his sacrifice, acting as our priest before God. The “curtain” into God’s presence is his body. So let’s do it-full of belief, confident that we’re presentable inside and out. Let’s keep a firm grip on the promises that keep us going. He always keeps his word. Let’s see how inventive we can be in encouraging love and helping out, not avoiding worshiping together as some do but spurring each other on, especially as we see the big Day approaching.

[@garystotler3149]

Times were hard then, but people had good sense. Times are easier now, but people have lost their minds. Right is wrong, and absolute wrong is right. When they made this movie many of the people who lived in the thirties were still alive. They are all gone now, and you can sure see the evidence of the loss of the influence of their grace and wisdom . Now the inmates are running the asylum. Good hymn, good movie.

[@w3tno]

Thank you for your insightful comment.

[@w3tno]

"Ask and it shall be given you." I have just added the video, which I think you have asked for. Do a search on "In The Garden" and w3tno.

[@w3tno]

Danny Glover is the actor you are referring to. I appreciate your comments.

[@w3tno]

Thank you for your comment, although I would not go so far as to wish for a depression.

[@larryhamsing4140]

Anyone see who wrote the music for this great movie? John Kander (Cabaret, Chicago).

[@w3tno]

Thank you for your comment. Have you seen the movie? If you haven't, I would be most interested on your comments about the movie itself. The movie has a powerful and controversial ending.

[@Dwaydt]

The mexican poet López Velarde wrote: My country I love you not as a mith but as a truth of blessed bread. As a catholic seminarist he was referring to Christ. This be truth in our countries.

[@michaeldj5]

Hi. Can you PLEASE post the ending to the movie, with "In the Garden" as they sung it? I need to be able to book mark that so badly....

[@michaeldj5]

@w3tno Well, you're right, it's there. But...the parts where the preacher talks about the institution of the Lord's Supper, it's dubbed in Spanish. I want to hear that in English, in that wonderful, Southern drawl that I was accustomed to hearing when I, myself, was a preacher's son in the Church of Christ and used to wait on the Lord's Table...many, many years ago...

[@w3tno]

Do a KZbin search on "In The Garden" by fer649. I believe that is exactly what your are looking for.

[@Danandvikki1]

@KSCrosby Agreed!

[@Marketoromagnolo]

I am looking some video of the movie THE HABITATION OF DRAGOS, with Brad Davis who suiceded 6 days after the movie, please can you help me?

[@w3tno]

Check this link www.ebay.com/p/The-Habitation-of-Dragons-VHS-1995/3244047

[@mholmgren9343]

Who performs this song? Anyone?

[@austinpatterson672]

This is my story; do you love Jesus?

[@peggypenny1]

you think they had there breakfast..........i doubt it

[@ibrake4butterflies]

They feast on a peace of cornbread and a glass of tea. So humbling. 😔

[@ibrake4butterflies]

Any one know why they keep their plates turned over before they eat.

[@cherigenin8752]

+ibrake4butterflies Black Sunday...worst dust bowl storm in our history...Texas...April 1935.

[@ibrake4butterflies]

Oh wow. I had no idea all these years why they did that. Thank you. Thank you. This is my favorite film. Peace and God bless.

[@douglcleveland3117]

ibrake4butterflies dust, we still do

[@rgv7]

Dust.

[@ibrake4butterflies]

Thank you

[@liltxgal98]

Every time I take a road trip to Waxahachie I just soak in the small town spirit though it has grown leaps and bounds still my idea of perfect "little town"