After reading and commenting on a friend's blog entry about memorizing poetry and songs and Bible verses, I took a stroll down memory lane. It all came back to me: Bible Memory Association, Miracle Camp, Dr. W, and those wonderful little memory books. I suddenly recalled humid nights at Miracle Camp in Shreveport, LA and the song we would sing every night: "Miracle Camp." A few years later, when I heard the anthem "God of Our Fathers," I thought "Hey, they took the Miracle Camp song tune and changed the words!" (Yes, I lived under a rock.) Here are what I thought were the original words to the song:
Miracle Camp, we gather here again.
Miracle Camp, the place that God did plan.
Through many years, Thy wisdom did design
This lovely place for fellowship divine.
Here are the original lyrics:
God of our fathers, whose almighty hand
Leads forth in beauty all the starry band
Of shining worlds in splendor through the skies.
Our grateful songs before Thy throne arise.
Which do you like the best?
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I participated in BMA, but I never knew anything about Miracle Camp! I feel deprived!!!
I don't know how many times my kids have noticed that a song they learned at some camp or school was set to some classic tune, and they thought the same thing as you did. Funny.
Jennifer,
Too bad that you didn't experience Miracle Camp, "This lovely place for fellowship divine." The bus ride was bad enough, and the swampy humidity. But on top of that, when you got to camp you had to go into this little office and recite some unbelieveable amount of verses to someone (the Memory Monitor? Scripture Czar?) for admission. I don't know what they did to folks who didn't pass.
BMA must have been universal. I still have many of my memory books. Do you? And my trophy for working through the five youth books. Got that too. Somewhere.
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