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Say, Is This Wild Corrupted Nation?
Author: Susannah Harrison Meter: 9.8.9.8 D Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: Say, is this wild, corrupted nation
Say, Is This Wild Corrupted Nation?
Say, Is This Wild, Corrupted Nation
Author: Susanna Harrison Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #8691 Meter: 9.8.9.8 D Lyrics: 1 Say, is this wild, corrupted nation
Blest with a few who seek the Lord?
Say, is there one in every station
Who loves t’obey Jehovah’s word?
2 Are all agreed t’increase the sadness
Of such a dark and gloomy time?
Do all run on in headstrong madness,
And scorn repentance for the crime?
3 Is this, indeed, our sad condition?
No: let me bless the God of grace!
There are a few who with contrition
Lament for sin before His face.
4 Let me encourage their confession,
Their strong entreaties for this land!
Though ’tis a time of great transgression,
Yet, surely, God is still at hand.
5 Ye humble souls, pray without ceasing,
To you the Lord will lend an ear;
While sins and judgments are increasing,
O pray in faith and persevere.
6 O pray, nor be too much dejected,
Ask all in Jesu’s worthy name!
Your suit shall never be rejected,
Through Him we may forgiveness claim.
7 Come, sinners, join in each petition,
Nor tempt the Lord by your delay:
He gives repentance and remission
To all who do sincerely pray.
8 Let every soul in every station
Join their assistance—who can tell
But God may turn and bless this nation,
And send contention down to hell. Languages: English Tune Title: BENGHAZI
Say, Is This Wild, Corrupted Nation
Say, is this wild, corrupted nation
Hymnal: Songs in the Night (2nd ed.) #120 (1802)
Say, is this wild, corrupted nation
Susannah Harrison
1752 - 1784 Person Name: Susanna Harrison Author of "Say, Is This Wild, Corrupted Nation" in The Cyber Hymnal Harrison, Susanna, invalided from her work as a domestic servant at the age of 20, published Songs in the Night, 1780. This included 133 hymns, and passed through ten editions. She is known by "Begone, my worldly cares, away," and "O happy souls that love the Lord." Born in 1752 and died Aug. 3, 1784.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
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Harrison, Susanna. (1752--August 3, 1784, Ipswich, England). The preface to the first edition of her collected hymns, Songs in the night, 1780, states that she was "a very obscure young woman, and quite destitute of the advantages of education, as well as under great bodily affliction. Her father dying when she was young, and leaving a large family unprovided for, she went out to service at sixteen years of age."
In August 1722, she became ill, probably with tuberculosis, and returned to her mother's home. She taught herself to write and in her remaining years she wrote 142 hymns which, with a few meditations, were published as Songs in the night by an anonymous editor, perhaps her rector. So sincere yet vivid is the expression of her faith as she faced certain death that by 1847 there had been eleven editions printed in England and seven additional ones in America.
Individual hymns remained popular in America during much of the nineteenth century due to the constant preoccupation with death in both urban and frontier life, reflected in the large sections of funeral hymns in most hymnals.
--Leonard Ellinwood, DNAH Archives
Susannah Harrison
