98 Not Always on the Mount
Frederick L. Hosmer, 1840-1929
Based on the story of the transfiguration in Matthew 17, the lesson enforced by the hymn is that the mount is necessary for vision; we cannot abide there, yet our work in the valley will be nobler for the pattern shown us on the mount.
For comments on Frederick L. Hosmer see Hymn 72.
The hymn, written in 1882, was first published in Unity, Chicago, April 1, 1884. A year later it was included, in revised form, in the author’s first series of The Thought of God.
MUSIC. TRANSYLVANIA is from a 16th century Hungarian chorale, arranged by Robert L. Sanders, F. A. A. R., Chicago, for Hymns of the Spirit, Beacon Press, 1938.