Trusting Jesus (Late 37: 3,4,5)
Edgar Page Stites (1836-1921)
Ira D. Sankey (1840-1908)
A sawt nai khol lo khat-in medical doctor khat in ama’ kianga kilak cinate’ lakah tampitak pen a natna uh a etet ciangin a ngawh ding mel thei lo-in “incopability” a cih pongmawkna kigelhna lai khat ka sim kha hi. A pumpi tungvuah natna cih taktak ding om khol lo napi-in tuhun nuntakzia kinawh lua, buaina tam lua, lungzinna tam lua ahih manin a pumpi, a lungsim, a kha un lelgawp-a a tawpna ah nuntakna nangawn a sukha natna ahi hi.
Tua banga nuntakna vangik lel-a om mite in hih lamalte nisim-in sima i kithuhilhsak ding bangzah-in thupi!
- Muang lel ding sun nitum dong,
- Huihkhi laan laitakin zong,
- Lungneu laitak muang sem ding,
- Jesu mah muang kinken ding.
- Lam a nop ciangin la sa,
- Lungziin ciang thu ngen inah,
- Launa tuah ciang Amah ko,
- Jesu mah muang leng pha zo.
1876 kumin hih lamalte Chicago khua ah D.L. Moody kipia hi. Newspaper pan-a ki-eukhia ahi hi. Moody in Sankey piasawn-a a aw phuak dingin sawl hi. Sankey in zong Moody kiangah hih lamal sunga thute a thukim khit takpi leh a la-aw a phuah nading gen hi. Moody thukim-a hih la-aw kiphuak hi.
1876 kuma kikhen Sankey’ labu Gospel Hymns No. 2 sungah helpah hi. Tua kuma kipan Moody-Sankey cialpite ah nakpi-in zang uh hi. Tuni dongin naupang banga Zeisu i muan nading hong hilh hih la tungtawnin mi tampi in hehnepna leh hanthotna ngah uh hi.
Hih lamalte a phuakpa Edgar Page Stites bel kum tampi sung Cape May, New Jersey-a Methodist pawlpi sungah a kilang khol lo-a nasep hanciam mahmah pawlpi mi khat ahi hi. A pupi John Howard pen May Flower tembaw tawh America gam a paite’ laka khat ahi hi. “A Thu Zaza Nuam Ing” (More About Jesus) la a phuak Eliza E. Hewitt tawh pa-unau uh ahi hi.
Tawlkhat sung North leh South Dakota-te ah Methodist home missionary-in om ngei hi. Edgar Page Stites’ phuah la minthang dang khat bel “Aw Gam Nuampi” (Beulah Land) ahi hi. A la phuahte’ ah pseudonym Edgar Page bek zang pahpah hi. January 7, 1921 ni-in a suahna khua Cape May, New Jersey ah si hi.
Hih la-aw a phuak Ira D. Sankey bel i theihsa hi a, August 28, 1840 ni-in America gam Edinburg, Pennsylvania ah suak a, 1856 kumin pianghtak hi. 1857 kumin New Castle, Pennsylvania ah lal uh a, tua lai-ah Methodist Episcopal pawlpi ah lut hi. A sawt lo-in Sunday School superintendent-in kikoih a, choir leader zong sem hi. American Civil War (Tualgal) sung 1860 kumin Union Army ah lut hi. Sergeant za ciang tung hi. September 9, 1863 ni-in State Senate member John Edwards’ tanu Fanny V. Edwards tawh kiteng uh a, tapa nih nei uh hi.
Gal ven ciangin New Castle ah ciahkika a pa’ nesep Internal Revenue Service ah nasep huh-in om hi. 1867 kumin amau’ khua a YMCA ah secretary, tua khit teh president cih bangin kitel hi. 1870 kumin Indianapolis khua-a YMCA kikhoppi ah taangmi-in kah-a D.L. Moody tawh kimu uh hi. Moody in hun-bit-a Pasian nasem dingin zol hi.
1871 kumin D.L. Moody tawh kithuah dingin Chicago ah kituah a, kum 30 val kithuah uh hi. 1873 pan 1875 sung Great Britain ah lungdamna thu tangko-in pai hi. 1873 kumin Sacred Songs and Solos khenkhia hi. Kikhen kikkik-a, la zong kibehlap toto hi. 1903 kuma a kikhet ciangin la dawng 1,200 pha ta hi. 1874 kumin Philip P. Bliss tawh kopkhawma a khet uh Gospel Hymns Numbers 1-6 khetkhiat kipan a, la dawng 739 pha hi.
1881-84 sung British Isles ah lungdamna thu tangko-in zin kik uh hi. 1885 kumin a labute zuakna pana kingah sum lak panin Newcastle, Pennsylvania a YMCA inn lam nading $ 40,000 piakhia zo hi. 1891-92 sung British Isles ah zin kik uh a, 1898 kumin Holy Land ah zin hi. 1899 kumin mangpha khakna in England gam zin leuleu hi. December 22, 1899 ni-in a lawmpa D.L. Moody si a, dah mahmah hi. 1903 kuma kipan a mit in khua mu nawn lo hi. August 13, 1908 ni-in Topa kiang Van-inn ah ciah ta hi.
“Nang Kong Beel Hi” (Hiding in Thee), “Huihpi Nun Cianga Kidalna” (A Shelter in the time of Storm), “The Ninety and Nine” cih late zong a aw Sankey’ phuah ahi hi. Tuate banah “Nang Ading Thu Ka Ngen” (For You I Am Praying), “Upna in Zawhna Hi” (Faith is the Victory), leh “Under His Wings I Am Safely Abiding,” cih late zong a aw a phuah ahi hi.
Rev. Zam Khat Kham
Christian Hymn te’ tangthu 2005
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