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Old 10-24-2016, 10:19 PM   #139
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Default Re: Favorite Hymns Of Mine

I found something very interesting about Hymn 505 in the LSM Hymnal, which I always liked to sing:

"There's a Man in the Glory", Lyrics by Mary E. McDonough (1863 - 1962)

LSM has the words here: Words: https://www.hymnal.net/en/hymn/h/505
I even found a copywrite notice under this hymn on another site LSM has the words to the hymnal at.

The song is sung nicely here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_R07hyUzdM

Now here's where is gets weird (to me, as a former member of TLC beginning in 1978).

I learned by internet search that Mary E. McDonough wrote a book called "God's Plan of Redemption" that is filled with teachings concerning the tripartite man (uses the three circle diagram) and God's work to transform Christians into His image and glorious bride that are amazingly similar to Witness Lee's teachings I learned in the late 1970's - 1980's. The last page of an internet link to that book includes this hymn at: http://marymcdonough.ccws.org/appropriated/index.html

Here is a web site that talks about the tripartite man and Mary E. McDonough's (and others') teaching concerning it.

Now maybe some former members of TLC from the early 1960's can enlighten me about the relationship between Mary E. McDonough, Watchman Nee, and Witness Lee. Because there is a lot of copying of content going on here, and I'm not sure how this all came about. Nor do I know why Mary's hymn is now copywrited by LSM.

To be fair. I do remember Witness Lee mentioning the other authors mentioned on the site, saying his teachings were built on what they had seen (he often said he "stood on their shoulders" and saw further). I don't remember anything about this Mary E. McDonough though.

Now why is this important? Because I had no idea how similar Witness Lee's teachings were to hers, and of course I gave Watchman Nee and Witness Lee the credit for them (because I didn't know). And, I'll bet many others did the same.
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