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He wanted “the Book.” The man’s landlord was contacted and brought “the Book” to the man’s bedside. The singing is subdued but suggests intense emotion, expressed with impeccable diction. In 1888, Sir Arthur’s tune became one of the earliest to be recorded–a recording that can still be heard on YouTube.

For your interest, I have provided links to two beautiful renditions of this song.

Short on money for alcohol, he sold the Bible in a pawn shop. He opened the Bible, slowly turning the worn and weathered pages.  Many contained specially marked verses his mother hoped he would read. He brought the cross to our level.

Fearing her son was on a pathway to eternal destruction, his mother gave him a Bible as a going-away gift. He was alone in that room for many hours. He began drinking heavily. Here, from 1939, is Webster Booth singing The Lost Chord.

(3) Today in 1910 – Lister Derricks Born

Lister Cleavant Derricks was a Baptist clergyman who served in churches in Tennessee, Wisconsin, and Washington DC, not only as pastor, but as choir director.

When the patient died, Mackay asked the attending nurse to see what “Book” was so important to the man. Pinafore, and The Mikado. Yet there is an expression of hope in the soaring climax of Adelaide Proctor’s lyric that such sublime experiences await the people of God in heaven. Without relatives, the man’s only consolation was that his most precious possession be at his side.

Sir Arthur Sullivan must have had similar thoughts about his music. It was a sad case. P. Mackay