{"id":1102,"date":"2011-07-25T21:30:59","date_gmt":"2011-07-25T21:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2011\/07\/seth_parker_hymnal.shtml"},"modified":"2021-05-29T02:44:38","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T02:44:38","slug":"seth_parker_hymnal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2011\/07\/seth_parker_hymnal.shtml","title":{"rendered":"Seth Parker’s Hymnal"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple months ago, Dad brought a bunch of hymnals that had been my Great Grandmothers and we spend some time at my sisters paging through them. It was cool to see some of our favorites today in those song books from 80 or so years ago.
\nOne of them was named ‘Seth Parker’s Hymnal’. I had no idea who he was, but while paging through I came across this oddball:<\/p>\n

\n
IF YOU’RE HAPPY
\n(The Lord is Happy Too)<\/div>\n

If you think that the Lord is Gloomy
\nIf you think that the Lord is Blue
\nYou will find that you’ve been mistaken
\nIt isn’t the Lord, it’s you.
\nYou’ve gone to the Lord with trouble
\nYou’ve gone to the Lord when sad
\nJust change things ’round next time.
\nAnd go to the Lord when glad
\nChorus:
\nWhen you’re happy, the Lord is happy too
\nWhen you’re smiling, the Lord will smile at you.
\nDon’t you think it’s fair when all is said
\nTo visit the Lord before you’re dead
\nWhen you’re laughing, the Lord will understand
\n‘Cause he made laughs the same as he made man
\nAnd if you should think the Lord is sad,
\nTry calling on Him when you’re glad.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I have no words for that, some of it just doesn’t make sense (visit the Lord before you’re dead?) What kind of whacked out hymn is this and what sort of theology says put on a happy face for God?
\nBut wait, there’s more:<\/p>\n

\n
HAS ANYONE FOUND A TROUBLE<\/div>\n

I had a mess of troubles
\nThat were troubling me
\nAnd each one was a thoroughbred
\nWith a great long pedigree
\nBut now I’ve gone and lost one
\nI’ve had since infancy
\nI thought my chronic trouble
\nWould have more loyalty
\nChorus:
\nHas anybody found a trouble
\nThe trouble that belongs to me?
\nIt was as big a trouble
\nAs troubles ever grow to be
\nYou say you’ve found a small one
\nOne you can hardly see?
\nWhy that must be the trouble
\nThe trouble that belongs to me.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Mmmm-kay.
\nSo I Googled ‘Seth Parker’. Turns out he was a stage name for Phillips Lord<\/a> (the songs were credited to both) who did a very popular radio show in the 1920s and early 1930s. Seth Parker was a character on the show, a folksy pastor based on his grandfather. The show aired 6 times a week and earned Lord close to $100,000 a year, according to the Wikipedia article linked above. He’s even got a star on the Hollywood walk of fame<\/a>. I had assumed that Seth Parker was some sort of minister, but it turns out that he was just a showman with a sort of religious bent.
\nIt wasn’t all goofy, folksy hymns. There are many old standards like IT IS WELL WITH MY SOUL, ROCK OF AGES and JESUS LOVES ME. (There was also, ironically, THE OLD TIME RELIGION) There are a lot of hymns I’ve never heard of too, there among those odd balls by Mr. Lord.
\nBut, he also wrote this one, which isn’t so odd at all:<\/p>\n

\n
HEAVENLY JEWELS
\n(verses 1 & 3)<\/div>\n

They tell me, up in heaven
\nThe streets are paved with gold
\nThe crowns upon the angels
\nare silver, I am told
\nThe pearly gates of heaven,
\nAre made of jewels rare;
\nBut what care I have for jewels,
\nIf God is waiting there.
\nI’ve never even worried
\nAbout the things above,
\nWhen I have stopped to realize,
\nThat I will have God’s love.
\nWhat heaven is or looks like,
\nI cannot seem to care.
\nFor all I want to know is
\nThat God is waiting there.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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