In The Garden -Anne Murray

[Neighbor]

Hi,

This lyric is  a representation of the very personal experience of one woman alone. That woman Mary Magdelene. It was written under  commission in just a few minutes under the illumination given to C. Austin Miles. To me it is best sung by a woman and not a man unless the history  and what the song represents is also given.

 

[turtletwo]

@Neighbor  Nice version of this much loved hymn. Interesting story behind it, too. Thanks for sharing it. As a child I thought it was about coming to Jesus in prayer in a peaceful garden and sensing His presence there. Your history of the hymn intrigued me. So I looked it up and added a bit more info I found. Also, the lyrics. God bless you.

I Come to the Garden

SONG & MUSIC WRITER: C.Austin Miles          
              
HYMN HISTORY: C. Austin Miles writes his own story on how the words were written to "In the Garden."  "One day in March, 1912, I was seated in the darkroom where I kept my photographic equipment and organ.  I drew my Bible toward me; it opened at my favorite chapter, John 20 . . . That meeting of Jesus and Mary had lost none of its power to charm.  As I read it that day, I seemed to be part of the scene.  I became a silent witness to that dramatic moment in Mary's life, when she knelt before her Lord, and cried, "Rabboni!" . . . Under the inspiration of this vision I wrote as quickly as the words could be formed the poem exactly as it has since appeared.  That same evening I wrote the music."

BIBLE VERSE:   John 18:1 – “When Jesus had spoken these words, he went forth with his disciples over the brook Cedron, where was a garden, into the which he entered, and his disciples.”

HYMN LYRICS:

I come to the garden alone,
While the dew is still on the roses;
And the voice I hear, falling on my ear,
The Son of God discloses.

Refrain:
And He walks with me, and He talks with me,
And He tells me I am His own,
And the joy we share as we tarry there,
None other has ever known.

He speaks, and the sound of His voice
Is so sweet the birds hush their singing,
And the melody that He gave to me,
Within my heart is ringing.

(Refrain)

 

I'd stay in the garden with Him
Though the night around me be falling,
But He bids me go; through the voice of woe,
His voice to me is calling.

And He walks with me, and He talks with me,
And He tells me I am His own,
And the joy we share as we tarry there,
None other has ever known.

[Neighbor]

Hi turtletwo,

 Thanks for posting the history of the writer of this song. I try to research the origins of songs, of worship especially, because what motivates the writing in the first place is as often  a strong testimony of our Lord Jesus, strong as the worship itself.