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Another Hymn Story “And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in His tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the Lord” (Psalm 27:6). Christianity was facing a dark future in England when Queen Anne (1675-1714) forced through British Parliament the Schism Act. This was an extreme measure designed to stamp out dissidence by preventing nonconformists and Catholics from educating their children in their own schools, and severely limiting religious freedom. Against this black backdrop, Isaac Watts wrote the well-known and reassuring hymn: O God, our help in ages past, Our hope for years to come, Our shelter from the stormy blast, And our eternal home. How the words must have brought courage and comfort to the Christians in those days of fear and instability. On the day the Act was due to take effect Queen Anne died, and her successor, George I, took no steps to enforce it. It was eventually repealed in 1719. God was in full control!
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