March 29, 2024
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The curtain was about to fall on Atlantic Crossings aboard ships when the Italians launched a new ocean-liner whose name would be learned around the globe. It was a last-ditched attempt to prove to the world that in post-war Europe, they were down but certainly not out.
There is an 1857 song about a little brown church which became part of the American experience. It helped a young song-writer remember part of his youthful years, it helped pay for a medical school education, and it remains one of Christianity’s most performed hymns.