God of Our Fathers, Known of Old

Nations founded on or embracing Christian values will likely stray from those values as time goes on.  This is particularly true when one of the seven deadly sins, pride, creeps into the national consciousness.  Such was the case in 1897, the year of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, when the great poet, Rudyard Kipling, wrote God of Our Fathers, Known of Old.  Though not a particularly religious man, Kipling called on his countrymen to remember Who it was that made England great; "Lest we forget, lest we forget."  Is this where we find ourselves today?

Article taken from Living Stories of Famous Hymns by Ernest K. Emurian. Copyright © 1955 by Baker Book House Company. Used by permission of Baker Book House Company.