Can man by searching find out God
Can man by searching find out God. Elizabeth Cosnett* (1936-2024).
First drafted in the early 1970s, this text underwent many revisions before appearing in MHfT (1980) and thus in A&MNS. It was soon included in several major denominational hymnals in the UK and the USA, such as HP, RS, HFTC, A&MCP, and A&MRW, usually with ‘man’ changed to ‘we’ in line 1. The author gave permission for this, although she expressed reservations about the change on several grounds: the original first line is a direct quotation from the Authorized Version of the Bible; ‘man’ is a strong sounding monosyllable well suited to the stressed position in iambic metre; and the meaning of ‘we’ can be much...
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