This was actually a popular hymn, even given its content, and the context it was drawn from. I suspect that the ministry used this hymn as a means of crowd-control, whenever the gossip started getting out of hand.
Though I speak with tongues of men, Though I speak as angels,
If I have not charity, I am become as nothing.
I become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
With the gift of prophecy, Still I am as nothing.
Though I know all mysteries,
Though I have all knowledge,
If I have not charity, I am become as nothing.
Though I give all I possess, Let my body burn;
If I have not charity, Then I am as nothing.
Charity will suffer long, Charity is kind,
Envies not nor vaunts itself,
Behaveth not unseemly.
Seeketh not to have her way,
Nor is easily angered;
If I have not charity, Then I am as nothing.
Charity rejoiceth not In iniquity,
But rejoiceth in the truth;
Believes and bears all things;
Hopes all things, endures all things;
Never thinketh evil.
If I have not charity, Then I am as nothing.
Whether there be prophecies,
Whether there be knowledge,
These shall likewise pass away,
But charity remaineth.
Faith and hope and charity;
All of these abide;
But among the three of these,
Charity is greatest!
One thing that must never be forgotten, in the light of this “Christian”-sounding hymn: The charity spoken of in this hymn was ONLY to be extended to other truly converted members of god’s true church. For all others, it was “Let the dead bury the dead.” And we really meant it.
Tags: cult control, manipulation
