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The story behind the tipnos, the
story of the source hymn of eternal life,

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the source of eternal life and every
blessing. To exalt your tender grace

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owes every heart, your inexhaustible piety, abundant in forgiving the only adorable glory

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to you we must give the source
hymn of eternal life. Written by English

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author Robert Robinson in a thousand seven
hundred and fifty- seven. He is

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one of the most admired Christian chants
worldwide. Although his spiritual message has moved

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and encouraged the hearts of many evangelicals
who have uttered his melodious words with meaning.

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The beauty of this song stands out
even more when the chain of events

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associated with its origins is discovered and
the transcendence it has achieved throughout its two

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hundred and seventy years of history is
explored. Robinson was born on September 27th

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of a thousand seven hundred and thirty- five in the British city of Swatham,

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within a poor Christian home. Like
any family, their parents had high

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aspirations for their son. Her mother’ s hope at Mary Walking was that

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one day she could become a shepherd
and preach God’ s word. However,

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that possibility seemed to fade in a
thousand seven hundred and forty, when

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his father died unexpectedly. Then,
with little money to survive, Wilking no

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longer had the necessary reserves for Robert
to go to school. After the death

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of his father, Michael Robinson,
Robert hesitated about his faith in Jesus Christ.

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Then the emptiness left by his progenitor
dragged him into a series of disagreements

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that placed him away from Christianity.
However, at the age of fourteen,

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after receiving financial support from a family
member, he left for London, where

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he was employed as an apprentice by
barber Joseph Anderson. It was at that

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time that he showed a deep interest
in reading and, after searching the scriptures,

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he again trusted the Lord. In
a thousand seven hundred and fifty-

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two, three years after arriving in
the capital of England, Robert Robinson went

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unexpectedly to a spiritual revival meeting convened
by a local council. However, the

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holy spirit used George Whitfield’ s
incisive preaching to completely change the direction of

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his life. He wrote down the
following in his diary. Born again on

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the 24th of May by the powerful
evangelization of George Withield, then over three

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years and seven months, he would
reaffirm his confidence in the creator. After

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giving his life to the almighty event
on December 10, seven hundred and fifty

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- five, Robinson devoted himself to
pastoral work and immediately began to share the

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good news of the Most High.
It was in those circumstances, while preparing

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a sermon that Robinson wrote the source
hymn of eternal life in a thousand seven

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hundred and fifty- seven. The
chant speaks of the grace of God and

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s ns. It is based on
Samuel’ s first seven hundred and twelve,

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where the prophet Samuel erected a monument
to mark the place where Jehovah helped

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them to pursue the Philistines and called
that place Ebenecer, which literally translates as

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a helping stone. As a prolific
writer, Robert Robinson had a long career

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as a Christian missionary. In his
more than thirty- four years in the

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service of the Saviour. He led
a church in Cambridge that brought together more

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than a thousand followers of Jesus Christ. On the 9th of June, a

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thousand and seven hundred and ninety,
the Lord called this dedicated servant to meet

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him, who left endless praises,
among which was the source hymn of eternal life.