How Great Thou Art!
(Late 145:3)
Stuart K. Hine (1899-?)
Swedish Folk Melody pana Stuart K. Hine leh Manna Music-te in arrangement abawl uh ahi hi.
20th century-a hong thang mahmah la hi a, Gospel lasa pawlkhat, a diakdiak-in George Beverly Shea in a sak-a kipan leitung buppi ah hong kizel hi. 1951 kumin Long Island-a Stony Brook Bible Conference ah Mr. James Caldwell in a sak ciangin America gamah a kiza pan ahi hi. Hymn dangte tawh tehna-in thak lai mahmah hi. 1954 kumin Billy Graham in London ah Crusade a bawl lai-in Cliff Barrows leh George Beverly Shea-te in Harringay Arena ah a sak uh ciangin leitung buppi ah hong kizel hi.
A kiphuah cilna bel Swedish pau hi a, “O Store Gud” kici hi. Swedish pastor Reverend Carl Boberg in 1886 kum-a a phuah ahi hi. Ama’ hun lai-in evangelical thuhilhsia minthang mahmah khat ahih banah, Sanningsvittnet kici laihawm ah editor sem-a muibun mahmah hi. Sweden gam nisuahna-leitaw lam-a tuipi gei hoih mahmah khat-ah khualzin-a a paina panin hih la hong piangkhia hi. Thakhat thu-in huihpi tuak-a, van-gingin keekkia-a, a kiim a paamteng mialcip-in lauhuai mahmah hi. A sawt lo-in khua pha kik vat-a, ni taang seisai hi. A kiim a paam-a singkungte ah vasate kimawl-in hong ham ciauciau uh hi. Pastor Boberg zong thakhat-in khukdinsuk-a a lian lua mahmah Pasian hong bia hi. Taang 9 a pha la dawng khat phuaka, a gual masapen swedish pau-in, “O Store Gud, nar jag den varld beskader” ci-in kipan hi.
Tua zawh kum tam simsim khit ciangin Sweden gam Province of Varmland-a kikhopna khatah mipite in ama’ phuah hih la Swedish melody khat-a hong sak mawk uh ciangin lamdangsa mahmah hi.
Hih la hong kizelh kawikwi zia theihnophuai mahmah hi. Boberg in a phuah khit a sawt lo-in Manfred von Glehn in German pau-in tei a, “Wie gross bist Du” ci hi. 1925 kum ciangin America gam Chicago, Illinois-a North Park College-a sem Reverend E. Gustav Johnson in Swedish pau panin Mangkamin teikhia hi. Tu-a kisasa English version tawh bel kilamdang mahmah hi. Hymnal lui pawlkhatte ah kimu thei lai hi. A thulu “O Mighty God, When I Behold the Wonder” kici hi. 1927 kum ciangin I.S. Prokhanoff in German version pan Russian pau-in teikhia leuleu hi.
1933 kumin England gam mi Reverend S.K. Hine-te nupa Ukraine ah missionary-in om uh hi. Tua lai ah Ukraine pau-a kisa “O Store Gud” va za uh hi. Pasian’ thu kizelh nai lohna khuamial gamah mi nih lasakna duet-in kisa-a piangthak lo mite’ lungsim a sukkhakna mangngilh thei het lo uh hi. Ahi zongin Mangkam-a teikhiat ding ngaihsun kha lo uh hi. Ahi zongin Sub-Carpathian Russia-a Carpathian mualtungah lungdamna thu gen-a a om uh ciangin Russian pau-a kisa tua la leh a etlawm lua mahmah Pasian’ bawlsa tua gam mualdungte en-in a Mangkam-a i saksak hih la hong phuak uh hi. Mun khat pan mun khat, khua khat pan khua khat ah zin kawikawi-a a pai kawmun gual khat khit gual khat, taang khat khit taang khat hong phulphul lel hi. “Nangma khut-a na bawlsa” a cih kammalte in tua a etlawm lua mahmah mualdung leh gamlakte hong musak hi. A taang masa thumteng tua muna a phuah uh hi a, a taang lina pen England a tunkik ciang vua a phuah uh ahi hi.
1939 kumin Leitung Galpi Nihna hong kipan-a, Reverend Hine leh a zi Britain ah a ciah loh uh phamawh hi. Galpi sung, sun le zan-in German-te in bomb a khiatkhiatna lak mah ah lungdamna thu a gen uh khawl tuan lo uh hi. A taang lina bel gal ven khit ciangin phuak zo pan uh hi.
Hih la a aw bel nidang lai pekpeka Sweden gama kisasa folk melody khat pana kila ahi hi. Reverend Hine in hih la a Swedish la-aw arrangement tawh hong khenkhia a, tu-a i sak bang teekteek-in “How Great Thou Art” ci hi. 1954 kumin hih la a kikhetna copyright leh publishing right-te American Company khat in hong ngah khak ciangin leitung bupah hong kizel semsem hi. 1974 kum April kha-a kihawm Christian Herald magazine in hih la America gama kideihpen “the No. 1 hymn in America” hi, ci-in ciamteh hi.
Rev. Zam Khat Kham
Christian Hymn te’ tangthu 2005
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