Musings of a Young Pastor

Sunday, September 12, 2004

Raise your Ebenezer?

Today, at both churches, we sang "Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing." A good hymn, and appropriate for the texts. Still, there's that one weird line - "Here I raise my Ebenezer..." now what on earth could that mean?

Here with the answer is Bob Prichard:

When we sing, 'Here I raise my Ebenezer,' we are poetically quoting Samuel, who raised the Ebenezer stone to remind the Israelites of God’s help for them in their time of trouble.

Check out the whole article.

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