98. Not always on the mount
Frederick L. Hosmer, 1840-1929
Based on the story of the transfiguration in Matthew 17, the lesson enforced by the hymn is that the mount is necessary for vision; we cannot abide there, yet our work in the valley will be nobler for the pattern shown us on the mount.
For comments on Frederick L. Hosmer see [Hymn 72].
The hymn, written in 1882, was first published in Unity, Chicago, April 1, 1884. A year later it was included, in revised form, in the author’s first series of The Thought of God.
MUSIC. TRANSYLVANIA is from a 16th century Hungarian chorale, arranged by Robert L. Sanders, F. A. A. R., Chicago, for Hymns of the Spirit, Beacon Press, 1938.