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Kenny Baker

Christian Science Hymns & Other Music – Kenny Baker ~ Vocalist ~ Index

0. Biography ~ Please see below
1. Poetry --- Please SCROLL or CLICK to GO NOW
2. The Seven Hymns --- Please SCROLL or CLICK Below to GO NOW
(Communion, Christ My Refuge, Feed My Sheep, Mother's Evening Prayer, Love, Christmas Morn, Satisfied)
3. Bible Verses & Hymns ~ 32 Tracks Continuous Play --- Please SCROLL or CLICK to GO NOW ........... MUSIC INDEX ~ ALL ARTISTS

Biography

Kenneth Laurence “Kenny” Baker was an American singer and actor who first gained notice as the featured singer on radio’s The Jack Benny Program during the 1930s. He appeared in seventeen film musicals and also Broadway productions.

He became a Christian Science practitioner and motivational speaker, and recorded a number of albums especially for inspiration from Bible verses and Mary Baker Eddy’s “seven hymns” taken from “Poem’s” one of the 17 books written by her. One of these “seven hymns” are sung each Sunday in Christian Science churches throughout the world.

There seems to be no better way to convey the “deeper spiritual insight” of Mary Baker Eddy in her “Poems” and Bible verses than through Soul manifesting itself as world-renown vocalist, Kenny Baker.

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What is Poetry ?
Each of these Other Writings calls for a whole chapter to itself, and Poems more so than most because of the essentially metaphysical nature of poetry and its relation to Science. If we look into this aspect first it will illuminate Mrs. Eddy's poems and the force of the fifteenth book.
Professor Erich Heller provides deep insight into the subject of poetry and meaning: "Poetry always means more than itself. Its meaning is the vindication of the worth and value of the world, of life and of human experience. At heart all poetry is praise and celebration .... Whatever it does, it cannot but confirm the existence of a meaningful world - even when it denounces its meaninglessness. Poetry means order, even with the indictment of chaos; it means hope, even with the outcry of despair. It is concerned with the true stature of things." (The Hazard of Modern Poetry).

Mary Baker Eddy

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The Seven Hymns

“Then from 1871 onwards they are characterized by a strong new tone of spiritual authority, when capitalized terms for God begin to appear plentifully in the lines. When we are ignorant of the spiritual origin of our world we see through a glass, darkly, but once Science has revealed that origin we sing a different kind of song.” The constant idea that reverberates through the poems is that the unity of God and man is not a beautiful dream, but is ever-present solid reality. – Mary Baker Eddy’s Other Writings by John L. Morgan.

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Hymn 23-28, Poem p. 29 - 1898. ~ Blest Christmas morn... First Line of Hymn Text 
From this wedlock of Principle and idea we can learn to be reborn, as in "Christmas Morn" - learn to regard man as "Thou God-idea, Life-encrowned," of which the human concept is but a shadow.
Hymn 30-32, Poem p. 6 - 1896. ~ Brood o'er us with Thy shelt'ring wing... First Line of Hymn Text 
At that time there are factions within the church, and so it is the members who are being urged to pray, "Brood o'er us with Thy shelt'ring wing, 'Neath which our spirits blend.
Hymn 160-162, Poem p. 79 - 1900. ~ It matters not what be thy lot, ... First Line of Hymn Text 
Thus if faithful we would arrive at the last poem in the book, "Satisfied". On a personal level we know that "It matters not what be thy lot, So Love doth guide;" and in the wider generic sense.
Hymn 207-212, Poem p. 4 - 1893. ~ O gentle presence, peace ... First Line of Hymn Text 
There is now a gap of six years before the next one, "Mother's Evening Prayer". The new church is established, and Mrs. Eddy's personal mothering is being withdrawn in favour of "Thou Love that guards the nestling's faltering flight!
Hymn 253-257, Poem p. 12 - 1883. ~ O'er waiting harpstrings of the mind ~ First Line of Hymn Text 
In 1883 her path is not an easy one and she needs the reassurance of "Christ My Refuge". "And o'er earth's troubled, angry sea I see Christ walk, And come to me, and tenderly, Divinely talk."
Hymn 298-300, Poem p. 75 - 1875.  ~ Saw ye my Saviour?..... First line of Hymn Text
"There follow the poems of 1866--1868 which reflect the years of wandering and of gradual consolidation of this discovery: "Give us this day our daily fopd / In knowing what Thou art!" (p. 28). What Thou art is then identified in 1871 as "Truth, the Life, the Principle of man" (p. 70). Soon she is able to purchase the first home of her own, and celebrates it in "Woman's Rights" (p. 21). Then, writing from this new home-summit and immediately after the first edition of Science and Health is published, she composes the confident "Hymn of Christian Science," now known as the "Communion Hymn" (p. 75): "Saw ye my Saviour? Heard ye the glad sound? Felt ye the power of the Word?"
Hymn 304-309, Poem p.14 - 1887. ~ Shepherd, show me how to go... First Line of Hymn Text 
While waiting and acting as pastor of the church in 1887, she prays to the great Shepherd, "Shepherd, show me how to go ... How to feed Thy sheep".

Reference

The “Seven Hymns” are in the order written. Please refer to Mary Baker Eddy’s Other Writings by John L. Morgan p.215 from link below.
See Section on Poems Pg. 215 PDF

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Bible Verses and Hymns

32 Hymns and other Solos sung by Kenny Baker especially FOR adherents of Christian Science and quiet listening. Bible verses are used as the lyrics for many of these solos tailored for the listener’s inspiration.

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1	Music	Music		Baker, Kenneth (Kenny) L	9 Tracks Continuous Play	MP3		Description available later
2	Music	Music		Baker, Kenneth (Kenny) L	11 Tracks Continuous Play	MP3		Description available later
3	Music	Music		Baker, Kenneth (Kenny) L	12 Tracks Continuous Play	MP3		Description available later