Once to Every Man and Nation | Fountainview Academy | The Great Controversy

[@melissapinol7279]

I just found out that this beautiful, powerful song was not written as a hymn, but was a poem called "The Present Crisis" written as a protest against the Mexican-American war. I was surprised, my mother thought it was a Scottish hymn.

[@dab808]

I thought it had to do with slavery. I sang it in High School with the chorus there.

[@dab808]

...Offering each the bloom or blight...And the choice goes by forever, twix this darkness and this light.

[@nanetteyauger5163]

So beautiful and so true! Pray for our country. GOD is our only hope!

[@CharlieLimbos]

Very impressive! Retaking the Red Square to this tune now...

[@BatschkaPower]

For mother Russia comrades, do not turn your back on her!

[@ALph4cro]

@@BatschkaPower VICTORY OR DEATH!

[@mattynek2]

​@@ALph4cro STUKA!!! TAKE COVER!!!!

[@MarkWilliams-yq4ky]

This song gives me the goosebumps. Very pertinent for these times. Love love love the passion in this rendition.

[@Denisemoretta-oq3eu]

me too!

[@thomasfuller3450]

Wonderful! James Russell Lowell, who wrote the lyrics, was my great, great (great?) uncle.

[@HabakkukB1]

He was my great great grandfather. Unfortunately through translation "Man" which used to mean humankind, now means "male" and the hymn comes off as being sexist. Also, Christian Theology tells us that there are many times when we get to decide, not just once. Still gets dragged out at a lot of family funerals--and it is one of my favorites James Lowell Bowditch.

[@TheDoctor1225]

@@HabakkukB1 In point of fact, "man" and "mankind" never changed its definition. According to the dictionary definition, the ARCHAIC usage was to distinguish men from women, but no less than the Oxford Dictionary lists the word as meaning "human beings collectively; the human race." It is only those who have accepted the PC movement and their insane desire to redefine words that have allowed this to be said to be a sexist term. Even the usage of "humankind" is an homage to that PC movement, which is sad. There was no need to come up with a new term - only a need to have the courage to not accept the redefinition of language as dictated by a few.

[@NelsonYum]

This is adopted to my alma mater’s school hymn. It is a wisdom and education about temptation and the kingdom of God.

[@philipwatt6222]

@@TheDoctor1225 The Doc Speaketh Truth! James, his great great grandbaby, has dropped the torch in the weakly fluttering wispy winds of political correctness.

[@tef_newalbionpacificmedia]

I've met two relative on here now!

[@theswych]

The remembrance of this song just came into my mind today and I'm so grateful for your rendition along with the lyrics! Bravo and many thanks!💜

[@fountainviewacademy]

Praise God 🙏

[@georgejayaprakash188]

All the way from India- Nilgiri hills- this is my most favourite hymn- I choose this very often when I plan the songs for my Church. The story behind this hymn is most touching- I shared the story with my choir members. All the musicians are enjoying the playing of their musical instruments, and the singers are Wow! awesome.

[@graceipakane4318]

God will richly bless you all keep singing for our Lord.I wish to sing with you all in heaven and it's not long .🙏🙏 (from Papua New guinea )

[@marlanolson7584]

What a wonderful rendition of this hymn which needs to sung in our congregations more than ever. The backdrop of the Roman Coloseum was fitting...if they would have sung the third stanza talking about the martyrs it would have been impressive. GOD BLESS YOU ALL.

[@JET4231]

Beautifully done. Seems highly appropriate as the Congress and the Senate approach one of the most historic votes in recent times. May truth prevail among our leaders, in this age where falsehoods seem to be spread everywhere.

[@tylarjackson7928]

Can I ask for the context of this comment? It says it was posted "1 year ago" but that doesn't help me narrow it down.

[@JET4231]

@@tylarjackson7928 As I recall, it was Dec 2019 when I came across this. Congressmen and senators were faced with the decision about whether to listen to the impeachment evidence, or to waffle under the pressures of politics. When the momment came to side with "truth or falsehood" clearly, the Republican Senators waffled. Had they voted differently, Mr Pence would have become President and, since he had remained untainted by the Ukraine weapons scandal, there is a good chance that he would have been elected as President in 2020. Instead, the senators bowed to the falsehood, followed by the falsehood about the 2020 election and the falsehood of rebelling against the government--and many today continue to bow to this "god" and, three years later, they still slavishly seek to serve him.

[@ricdeh1701]

Impeachment of Trump perhaps?

[@evangelinegrace3051]

One of my favorite hymns...God keeps watch above His own... hallelujah

[@saidblanco7696]

Remember comrades, victory or death!

[@anguswang4117]

1 Once to ev'ry man and nation Comes the moment to decide, In the strife of truth and falsehood, For the good or evil side; Some great cause, some great decision, Off'ring each the bloom or blight, And the choice goes by forever 'Twixt that darkness and that light. 2 Then to side with truth is noble, When we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, And 'tis prosperous to be just; Then it is the brave man chooses While the coward stands aside. Till the multitude make virtue Of the faith they had denied. 3 By the light of burning martyrs, Christ, Thy bleeding feet we track, Toiling up new Calv'ries ever With the cross that turns not back; New occasions teach new duties, Ancient values test our youth; They must upward still and onward, Who would keep abreast of truth. 4 Tho' the cause of evil prosper, Yet the truth alone is strong; Tho' her portion be the scaffold, And upon the throne be wrong; Yet that scaffold sways the future, And, behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, Keeping watch above His own.

[@pauladam6997]

😭

[@НинаСиница-н4я]

Слава Богу! ...благодарим за прекрасное пение и музыку! !!!!God bless you! !!!! Russia

[@janetruh7476]

This is my favorite rendition of this powerful song.

[@bradfordmccormick7543]

Prove all things; hold fast that which is good (1 Thess. 5:21)

[@tef_newalbionpacificmedia]

Beautiful recital of this amazing song and poem by Russell Lowell, an early Unitarian reformer. I've loved this song since I was twenty when I first heard it. We are incorporating it into a new documentary film. Love the location for this performance too,, I was just there awhile back. I highly suggest listening carefully to the words, they are fraught with deep truths, truths that are unpleasant to most Christians today.

[@HabakkukB1]

His name was James Russell Lowell. I'm his great, great grandson--James Lowell Bowditch

[@tef_newalbionpacificmedia]

@@HabakkukB1 Wow, nice to meet you, and the last name, another Unitarian of fame! I'm scripting a documentary on all of them right now.

[@ErikNilsen1337]

“Truths that are unpleasant to most Christians today” Like how Jesus Christ is God incarnate, and literally died and literally resurrected? I did not know that the author of this hymn was a Unitarian, so I find it pretty ironic that the movement from which he hails falters to hold the most elemental truths.

[@tef_newalbionpacificmedia]

@@ErikNilsen1337 You mentioned that joke called Unitarian-Universalist...they went way off the grid a long time ago, and are now even thinking of giving up one of the oldest Unitarian/Radical Reformation ideas of "an aversion to authority" and no creeds. The aim, like so many. is to set up hierarchical style church where there is an accepted profession of faith, and any questions...your "cancelled" or thrown out. They have hitched their wagon to the "woke" and the Democratic party, bad choice, the conservatives are going to win out and re-establish the "ancien regime" or an image of the original beast. [papacy, church state combo] I am one of those rare creatures who is an old school, traditional Unitarian, like many of our founders. You'll find that hymn in your SDA hymnal by the way, and pretty well as written. Adventism's main leaders came out of the "Christian Connextion" Unitarian movement, which along with the Unitarians founded Antioch College and made the father of modern public school ed Horace Mann its firsts president. EGW borrowed a lot from the educational reforms of both the radical reformation and the Unitarians, especially Jefferson. We could talk all night about the SDA/Unitarian links! As for the unpleasant truths, well the trinity doctrine is pure papal, and Greek mythology and enforced more strictly then a departure from the Mithraic day of the sun. Thanks for the reply Erik.

[@thomascampbell4730]

The libretto is truly breathtaking, the music somber as befits the theme, the performance more than inspired. Modern "spiritual" music pales in comparison, more akin to a jingle when compared to this majestic piece.

[@philiprichards3838]

My favourite hymn is Oh the deep deep love of Jesus also sung to this tune.

[@TheEdenFiles]

Yes. I cry when I hear either. Both are spectacular for the heart of the Gospel. This one especially for those fearing martyrdom... He stands watch in the shadows.

[@MarthalieThurstonSachemPiper]

One of my favorite hymns to play on the pipe organ. As always a wonderful array and production by Fountainview. Powerful

[@dewilderdbetter]

If there was ever a hymn for the times, Once to Every Man and Nation is the hymn for ours. Choose as you will but CHOOSE before the choice goes by forever.

[@edwardhart5466]

Just so Beautiful ,full of great musicality ,Thank you so much Fountainview Academy ,for all your wonderful work, god Bless you all in your ministry from England .

[@catherinenelson8351]

I've always been moved by this hymn, and this is a beautiful performance of it.

[@melodieperkins7080]

It is beautiful and the words are rich, not many Churches sing this hymn

[@LisaAma]

From Wikipedia: Many hymn texts are set to this tune. Among them are: "Dyma Gariad Fel Y Moroedd" (Here is Love, Vast as the Ocean) text by Gwilym Hiraethog (1802-1883), "Old and New Welsh and English Hymns" # 159 "Once to Every Man and Nation" text by James Russell Lowell (1819-1891), "Presbyterian 1955 Hymnbook U.S.A." # 361 [1] "Oh the Deep, Deep Love of Jesus" text by Samuel Trevor Francis (1834-1925), "Worship and Rejoice Hymnal" # 398 [2] "Come, O Spirit, Dwell Among Us" text by Janie Alford.[3][4] "Glory to God.The Presbyterian Hymnal U.S.A." # 280 "God hath Spoken by the Prophets" text by George W Briggs. "United Methodist Hymnal U.S.A." # 108[5] "Jesus, Tempted in the Desert" text by Herman G. Stuempfle.[6] "Let My People Seek their Freedom" text by Herbert O'Driscoll. " The United Methodist Hymnal U.S.A" # 586 "Singing Songs of Expectation" text by Bernhard Severin Ingemann / translator Sabine Baring-Gould, in "The Hymnal 1982 according to the use of the Episcopal Church" # 527 "Thy Strong Word did Cleave the Darkness" text by Martin Franzmann in "The Hymnal 1982 according to the use of The Episcopal Church" # 381 "Who is This, With Garments Gory" text by Arthur Cleveland Coxe. "Christian Science Hymnal" # 258.[

[@daltonroller2998]

Call of Duty’s Red Square brought me here - beautiful piece

[@daisyv.sablan175]

Ive so much enjoy seeing,hearing,a Beautiful Concert,wow nice to hear, and feel,thanks a lot Choir! God bless your gooc Voices!!

[@goodharvest7954]

This background of the Colosseum is so fitting considering the history of the Reformation in ancient times. God be praised.

[@amandaaman2883]

Praise the Lord! 😇

[@sgreen9088]

I love this academy! God bless you all.

[@jockellis]

Brings tears to one’s eyes

[@agardigitoxlinks8206]

To God be the glory.....some of the best music arrangement anywhere

[@christiciamorakile6179]

Great song and great choice of venue which goes well with the lyrics of the song when thinking of the atrocities that used to happen in that venue.

[@Blackspyda24]

Good singing. praise the Lord.

[@thomasellingwoodfortinanameric]

I would love to use this in our documentary film, your version is one of the best out there, the vocals are clear, and the instrumentation incredible, and they are just kids!

[@adrisbrown3519]

Beautiful singing

[@sanwoonlee]

Amen hallelujah

[@mfungomunema2949]

Amen. What a powerful song and lyrics too.

[@goodharvest7954]

This is a beautiful arrangement of this song.

[@goodharvest7954]

Absolutely wonderful!!! Powerful song.

[@AndrewSmith-uz8bg]

So beautifully done! I love this song!

[@shelleymalone2456]

Wonderful!

[@robertdiesen6873]

Beautiful! Love Rome!

[@rouryanzules8959]

Amén!!! Maranatha.

[@messengersoflight7131]

Beautiful! am sad though that the whole song was not sung. missed the important verse, 2.

[@tef_newalbionpacificmedia]

Yeah, I wish they had sung the 2nd verse, although all of them are fraught with heavy truths, but the 2nd is very powerful, and is a sort of central point that completes the song. The 2nd verse speak strongly to the individual and their role in the struggle of darkness vs light. As a historian who has studied religion pretty intensely, in the progress of restoring Christianity and purging it of its corruptions picked up along its journey to its current mostly monstrous forms, yeah, that verse is important and relevant for these times as it was back then when Lowell wrote it. This was the time when Thoreau was sitting in jail and writing Civil Disobedience, when the abolitionists were resisting the Mexican War of 1846 which was being fought to expand slavery. The Unitarians were a part of the Radical Reformation as opposed to the Magisterial Reformers like Luther and Calvin who combined their religious ideas with the power of the state to continue the fine old tradition of persecuting those who do not agree with your theology. Calvin burned, with a slow fire, Michael Servetus, the Unitarian, for his "heresy" and opposition to Calvinism. "The Presbyterian clergy are the loudest, the most intolerant of all sects; the most tyrannical and ambitious, ready at the word of the law-giver, if such a word could now be obtained, to put their torch to the pile, and to rekindle in this virgin hemisphere the flame in which their oracle, Calvin, consumed the poor Servetus, because he could not subscribe to the proposition of Calvin, that magistrates have a right to exterminate all heretics to the Calvinistic creed! They pant to re-establish by law that holy inquisition which they can now only infuse into public opinion" ~Thomas Jefferson, Works, Vol.iv.,p.322 Other radical reformers would suffer at the hands of the new Protestant popedoms. King James I [remember his bible?] was such a persecutor and a sexual pervert, who said concerning the Puritans that he "..would harry them out of the land" if they did not conform. Harry them out he did and New England was founded, and from that the first colony advocating religious freedom, Roger Williams and Rhode Island. Now the seed s of civil and religious liberty were planted in the New World, and would grow into the first Republic founded on those principles of civil and religious liberty, ideas that came out of the radical reformation and the Age of Reason. The founding heretics [most would be called cultists today or un-ordodox] were from these radical reformation roots and Unitarians. They would continue to be the leaders of reforms in the New World. Joseph Priestly, who like Servetus, was both scientist and theologian, said this, "How glorious, then, is the prospect, the reverse of all the past, which is now opening upon us, and upon the world. Government, we may now expect to see, not only in theory and in books but in actual practice, calculated for the general good, and taking no more upon it than the general good requires, leaving all men the enjoyment of as many of their natural rights as possible, and no more interfering with matters of religion, with men's notions concerning God, and a future state, than with philosophy, or medicine." ~Joseph Priestly OK, I'm on the bully pulpit now, to wrap this up, one of the Unitarian groups, The Christian Connection, who also joined in starting Antioch College which was based on the ideas of Jefferson about education, and whose first president they all picked was Horace Mann, one of America's leading educational reformers and a Unitarian, the Connection would provide a number of the founders of the Seventh-day Adventist movement, taking with them the ideas of the various reforms active at the time in health, a Christianity that challenged the Calvinism and salvation by profession vs a religion that was worthless unless it changed the believer, educational reform, and even equality in society, [abolitionists] the idea of the Great Controversy of the ages, even non-consciousness in death, etc, not to mention an anti-trinitarian belief,... now you know where that came from in the early Advent pioneers. Anyway, in its beginnings Adventism was a combination of Millerite teachings and recycled Boston Unitarianism. I'm also aware of the controversies that have raged in the SDA movement over the past years, and how those who seem more like their Unitarian forebears and those who want to be more like the magisterial reformers of the reformation, have been at war, with a solution being preached that loyalty to leadership is a pillar of faith, and go along to get along sort of attitude, just obey and the great Adventist remnant will ascend to Heaven together, amen. The de-evolution backwards from the radical reformation has been sad to watch, but I will wrap this all up with an observation from the great historian of the Enlightenment. My final thought is this, I'm surprised that this hymn is still even in the hymnal. The modern Unitarians have gutted the song to nothing in their's, and I can see where that pesty 2nd verse would rub some wrong in the SDA leadership who have even declared in Federal court that their own popedom is in harmony with the Roman one [learned about that in law school] “The theologian may indulge the pleasing task of describing Religion as she descended from Heaven, arrayed in her native purity. A more melancholy duty is imposed on the historian. He must discover the inevitable mixture of error and corruption which she contracted in a long residence upon Earth, among a weak and degenerate race of beings.” ~Edward Gibbon, The Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire, XV Anyway, still a beautiful performance kids of that wonderful song, and with such a historically amazing back drop!

[@chenderson18]

I think every verse of our hymns should be sung. We do great injustice to the message if we leave out a verse. Beautiful.

[@Lunarsight]

Love the harmonies..

[@francinetrinidad4893]

Happy Sabbath

[@christopherallencomer5738]

beautiful. God bless

[@amacro11]

Hooray Happy Sabbath! Al

[@TheTradWarrior]

Nice to see and hear a talented youth choir and orchestra perform a traditional hymn rather than the usual infantilised rubbish young people are encouraged to participate in in many churches today. One minor quibble though - what's with the extraneous 'hand movements' from the choir? Very off-putting.

[@dominicntiakoh3145]

Beautiful!

[@billion86]

🎶"Oh the deep, deep love of Jesus" anybody?

[@jeannet7443]

Yes!

[@christineyoung7071]

AWESOME 👍😁🥰

[@user-hd1qx2bd1r]

BEAUTIFUL!!! You GO Fountainview!!!

[@nnsqutr]

Majestic.

[@jehielicardona9103]

Beautiful

[@evelinevanderlinden6743]

Prachtig 🙏

[@buydoji]

Love from Korea.

[@elviskwakyeoliver9079]

wonderful

[@TheSeedpearl]

It would be really nice if the words were printed alongside the video. More people would appreciate the depth of this hymn..

[@siluswere8380]

Indeed the great controversy is a battle of the mind

[@Denisemoretta-oq3eu]

AMAZING

[@KhrawbokSawkmie-vs8np]

The Christian childrens who sang this song had sung well. They play their music too so well. If these childrens from fountainview won't sang this song and gave birth again. The song will be far from everyone mind because the song is simple to hear and simple to understand. Amen. ❤❤❤❤.

[@JacobTyler1776]

As if to galvanize the timeless profundity of this song even further, the POD merch platform that I use for a free speech/anti-censorship merch store for one of my clients took down a design that I made referencing this song because the design has a noose in it.

[@gittabaak3075]

What schell Idou?no caming en ... pero estoy statisfechó, prise the Lord❤❤❤❤

[@civreal]

Unfortunately, the hand movements of the males are inconsistent which creates a sloppy look like it's not uniform. Would've been good for a smaller quartet/quintet type of performance; Also; this is obviously dubbed with a bigger sized choir and orchestra in a recording studio as the audio doesn't match was is being played. Due to this, it's hard to tell the quality of the young musicians being put on display here...

[@Wasabialt]

The Producers.

[@violettenord5230]

Very nice and good

[@violettenord5230]

💟💟💟👍👍👍👍💟💟💟💟💟❤❤❤💙💙💚💛💜

[@yanethdz428]

It’s the same as O the Deep, Deep Love of Jesus, right?

[@vanjastepanovic9576]

They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented; Of whom the world was not worthy: they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth. (Hebrews 11,37.38)

[@lindiwecomickornelius9621]

Wow......

[@DavidHamstra]

Originally written in 1845 about America deciding whether to go to war with Mexico and admit more slave states into the Union

[@valeriacristina579]

Eles são de qual denominação?

[@jcdenton679]

Call of Duty - Stalingrad and Red Square Theme be like

[@danielleinad5671]

Slava Rússia 🇷🇺🙏🏼❤️

[@elizeuamorimlimpo4985]

Call of Duty game song, amazing performance congrats.

[@AKIS_Proto]

Do not count days! Do not count miles!

[@stevea2588]

Once to every man and nation Comes the moment to decide, In the strife of truth with falsehood, For the good or evil side; Some great cause, God's true Messiah, Offering each the bloom or blight, And the choice goes by forever Twixt that darkness and that light. Then to side with truth is noble, When we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, And 'tis prosperous to be just; Then it is the brave man chooses While the coward stands aside, Till the multitude make virtue Of the faith they had denied. By the light of burning martyrs, Christ, Thy bleeding feet we track, Toiling up new Calvaries ever With the cross that turns not back; New occasions teach new duties, Time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still and onward, Who would keep abreast of truth. Though the cause of evil prosper, Yet 'tis truth alone is strong; Though her portion be the scaffold, And upon the throne be wrong: Yet that scaffold sways the future, And, behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow Keeping watch above His own.

[@valeriacristina579]

Olá!

[@wallclock4648]

Ay dis from call of duty

[@sassy3923]

The great cause every man and nation needs to stand up for in this present time is NO to government tyranny. NO to forced vaccines!

[@Anderson_Se7en]

I feel like you have to be a little off to really like this song as much as i do

[@ileananicola2095]

🧸🧸🧸🧸🧸🧸🧸🧸🧸🧸

[@АндрейТураев-р6ы]

Cod stalingrad

[@chumley7117]

Too fast!

[@searchingforgodsfingerprin4656]

Everyone: Read Angus Wang's post, below, with all the verses: this was written during America's abolitionists fighting against slavery, when black people were not considered human. Now we consider slave-holders barbaric, their torture of slaves, crimes against humanity. But NOW. . . Now, we argue about whether babies are human (What are they? Frogs? Cabbages?) and a woman has a "right" to have her child killed if she doesn't want it/it is inconvenient/an embarrassment. So now, we of the 21st century, too, stand where "the choice goes by forever 'Twixt that darkness and that light". God forgive us and help us not to be a people who murder babies (70 MILLION at last count) any longer. One last point: when we murder children, and others in our street crimes -- as when Cain killed Abel in Genesis Chapter 4, God told Cain (the murderer) "Your brother's blood cries out to me from the ground. . .". This is NOT picturesque language: there is a metaphysical, cosmic truth that we WILL PAY for willingly allowing and/or supporting the murder of other human beings, especially perfect, innocent babies sent into this world with a destiny given to them by God to fulfill.. God WILL judge us. People for abortion don't realize that Pro-lifers are actually helping to save THEM from God's hand of judgment, when they work to stop the murder of children. If you compare the murder rate in the United States pre- Roe v. Wade to post Roe v. Wade, you can see an immediate escalation of general acts of murder in our society. Now we have over 100,000 children abducted every year. Many of these are killed in ritual, Satanic sacrifice. A spirit of murder is loose in our land. People don't understand this spiritual truth: Murders strengthen demonic entities, and MORE murders are committed, because we have made demons stronger. The only answer is to repent, turn from our wicked, murdering ways, ask God for forgiveness and value every human life. Otherwise, it will get WORSE. You think murder is bad now? You haven't seen anything yet. America must turn before we are completely destroyed for our wickedness.

[@marybanks1354]

You are so right in these comments. As I write we are in the middle of a great battle about a stolen election. I sent this clip out to many people last night.....may God have mercy on our souls if we let this baby-killing, cheating, corrupt regime take over our country.

[@pushpapabbathi]

L̤o̤v̤e̤l̤y̤ s̤o̤n̤g̤ r̤e̤m̤i̤n̤d̤s̤ m̤e̤ o̤f̤ m̤y̤ l̤a̤t̤e̤ m̤o̤m̤

[@danielleinad5671]

Slava jesus 🇷🇺🇮🇱

[@katheliz1938]

Today Senator Mitt Romney exemplified Lowell's poem with his vote of Guilty as the only Republican senator to take seriously his oath to support and defend the Constitution. The poem should be memorized by every child in every Civics class. .