Blessed Assurance
(Hebrews 10:22)
Fanny J. Crosby (1820-1915)
Mrs. Joseph F. Knapp (1839-1908)
Hih la a phuak bel Fanny Crosby mah hi leuleu a, ama’ tangthu i gensa tampi om khin hi. Ahi zongin a tomin i genkik veve ding hi. America gam Southeast, New York ah March 24, 1820 ni-in suak hi. Kha khat leh a lang (nipi kal 6) a phak ciangin a mitna-a zatui kinuh khial a hih manin a mit taw-a, a khan tawntung mit khua mu lo-in om hi. A sih dongin New York City-a St. John’s Methodist Episcopal Church ah pawlpi mi citak mahmah khat-in om den hi. A neutunga kipan in a pi in thu le la kici khempeuh ah pantah hi. New York School for the Blind kici mit khua mu lote’ sangah pilna sin hi. 1847 kum panin 1858 kum dong tua sang mah ah sangsia sem hi. 1958 kumin tua sanga mite’ zahtak mahmah music sia Alexander Van Alstyne tawh kiteng uh hi.
A neu tunga kipan laphuah lam a vak hi a, ahi zongin leitung la pian vive phuakzaw hi. Church music lam-a minthang mahmah William B. Bradbury’ thuzawhna tungtawnin kum 40 a phaka kipan gospel lamal bek phuak-a, ama’ genna ah “tua gam sunga a lungnuampen mi” hong suak hi. Fanny Crosby in la a phuah ciangin khukdinin thungen-a Pasian’ makaihna zong masa lo peuhmah-in phuak ngei lo hi. A Laisiangtho sungah American lan (flag) khat tep liklek den se hi. Ama’ hun-a gospel laphuak minthang mahmah Ira D. Sankey, William H. Doane, John R. Sweney, George C. Stebbins, George F. Root, William J. Kirkpatrick, leh adang tuamtuamte tawh kithuah in la tampi phuak hi. A khan sunga a laphuah pongpong 8,000 val hi, ci-in kiciamteh hi. February 12, 1915 ni, ama’ kum 95 a phak laitakin i Topa’ kiang hong zuatsan hi.
Fanny Crosby’ phuah late lakah hih la, “Lungmuanna Thupha” (Blessed Assurance) banah, “Amah Thei Ning” (My Savior First of All/I Shall Know Him), “A Sia Ding Honkhia In” (Rescue the Perishing), “Lam Tawntung A Hong Paipih Hi” (All the Way My Savior Leads Me), “Pasian Min Pha Ta Hen” (To God Be the Glory) cih la ngaihte kihel hi.
Fanny Crosby banga mi khua mu lo khat in hih bang la ngaih dawng 8,000 val bang phuaka, a laphuahte tuni dongmah-in kideihpen den cih i ngaihsut khak ciangin Pasian’ nasepna lamdang a hihna kimu thei hi. A la phuahte zong thulu tuamtuam hi a, Christian nuntakna khempeuh huam kim mai hi. Tawlkhat sung bang nipi kal khat-in la dawng 3 bang phuak hi, kici hi. Min tuamtuam 200 bang zang ngei hi. Tua ahih manin ama’ phuahsa la tampi tak ama’ phuah a hih lam a kithei nai lo zong om lai tham dingin ki um hi. A la phuah thulute a lawmte khatpeuh, a leenglate khatpeuh in tua bang nam la hong phuak lecin ci-a a genna uh tungtawna a ngah tam mahmah hi. Khat veivei leuleu, la-aw phuah a siam a lawmte in la-aw phuahsa pia uh a lamal ding phuaksak thei uh hi. Tua banga a phuah zong tam mahmah mai hi.
Hih “Lungmuanna Thupha” zong tua bangmah ahi hi. Hih la-aw a phuak Mrs. Joseph Knapp hi a, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company a phuankhiapa’ zi ahi hi. Music leh laphuah siam-a minthang keii cih bang hi lo a, a kisincil, la phuah a kipan pan khat ahi hi. Fanny Crosby tawh a ki-it mahmah lawmta uh ahi hi. Ni khat, mit khua mu lo Fanny’ ngaih dingin hih la-aw piano ah tum hi. A la-aw a tum khit ciangin, “Hih la-aw in bang thu gen nuam hi-in na um a?” ci-in dong hi. Fanny in thakhat thu mah-in, “‘Khamuanna thupha, Zeisu kei’a’ a ci ve leh” ci lian hi. Tua la a phuak khin hong hi pak zel hi.
Mrs. Knapp in ama’ phuah gospel la dawng 500 val khenkhia hi. “Open the Gates of the Temple” kici la minthang khat bang zong ama’ phuah mah ahi hi.
Fanny bel kum 95 a phak-in si hi. Ama’ phuah late hangin mi bangzah piangthak-a, mi bangzah in thupha ngahlawh cih vantung i tun ciangin kithei pan ding hi. America gam Bridgeport, Connecticut-a a hansuang tungah a manpha mahmah sathau namtui tawh Mary in i Topa a zut cianga i Topa’ lungdamna kammalte kigelh-a ama’ nuntakna tawh kituak mahmah hi.
“Ama’n a hih theih bangbang hih khin zo hi.”
Rev. Zam Khat Kham
Christian Hymn te’ tangthu 2005
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