A Thu Ka Gengen Nuam Hi

4. A Thu Ka Gengen Nuam Hi

I Love to Tell the Story

(Romans 1:15)

Arabella Katherine Hankey (1834-1911)     William G. Fisher (1835-1912)

            Evangelical Christian-te laka “Clapham Sect” a kicite’ laka khat ahi Arabella Katherine Hankey’ phuah ahi hi. (“Clapham Sect” i cih bel England gam Clapham-a teng mihau Anglican Evangelical-te kilawhna min ahi hi. 1844 kuma kihawm Edinburg Reviewsunga article khat ah Sir James Stephen in tua mite lawhna-a a zat min kizang suaksuak ahi hi. “Clapham Sect” sungah mi minthang tampi oma, tuate’ lakah England gama sila neihna nakpi-a a langpan William Wilberforce, bank nasepna lama minthang mahmah Henry Thornton, Clapham-a rector John Venn, East India Company-a director sem ngei Charles Grant, governor-general of India a sem ngei Lord Teignmouth, barrister minthang mahmah James Stephen, Evangelical makai minthang mahmah Zachary Macaulay, Parliament-a dissenting member William Smith-te kihel uh hi.ZKK)

            1866 kumin in Miss Hankey in i Topa Zeisu’ nuntakna tawh kisai laibu khat gelh hi.   Poem-a a phuah ahi hi. Tua kum mah-in a pumpi dam het lo-a, i dam loh i hat loh laitakin kammal telnop nono-a kigelh laite mi kim in telnopsa hi, ci-in phawk hi. Tua mah tawh kizui-in Eden Huan panin Bethlehem bawngkuang sung, tua pan i Topa leitungah a om lai-a a nasepnate poem-in gelhkhia hi. Tua laibu 1868 kumin kikhenkhia a, “The Old, Old Story” cih thulu tawh kihawmkhia hi. Khen nih kisuah-a a masa lamteng “The Story Wanted” kici a, tu-a la-a i sak pen hi pah hi. A nunung lamteng “The Story Told” ci-in kikhen leuleu hi. Tua laibu kideih mahmah-a, kampau tuamtuamin kitei hi.

            A khen masateng William H. Doane in a aw bulh-in  “Tangthu Hong Gen In” (Tell Me the Old, Old Story) ci-a la ngaih mahmah khat a suah mahbangin a khen nunung taang li teng William G. Fisher in  a aw phuaka “A Thu Ka Gengen Nuam Hi” (I Love to Tell the Story) kici la ngaih mahmah khat hong piangkhia leuleu hi.

            William G. Fisher bel America gam Philadelphia khua-a musician minthang khat hi a, piano zuak mi khat ahi hi. “A Thu Ka Gengen Nuam Hi” (I Love to Tell the Story) la-aw a phuah ciangin a sakkik ding phuahbeh hi.  “Tua thu ka gengen nuam hi, Gengen lai ning vantungah, Hih thu tul thei ngei lopi, Zeisu leh hong itna” ci-a a phuah ciangin a la dawng buppi ngaihsak mahmah hi. 1875 kuma Philip P. Bliss leh Ira D. Sankey-te’ kaihkhopGoslpel Hymns and Sacred Songs labu sungah kihel pah-a, mun khempeuh-a evangelical Christian-te’ deihpen la khat suak hi. “A Thu Ka Gengen Nuam Hi” (I Love to Tell the Story) ahi-a, “Tangthu Hong Gen In” (Tell Me the Old, Old Story) ahi zongin, Arabella Katherine Hankey’ phuah late a dawng nih-in tuni dong kisasa a, William Fisher in a sakkik-a a gen bangmah-in vantung donga i sak ding late ahi hi.