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"Wars are planned by old men,in council rooms apart. They plan for greater armament, they map the battle chart, but: where sightless eyes stare out, beyond life's vanished joys, I've noticed,somehow, all the dead and mamed are hardly more than boys(Grantland Rice per our mutual friend, Sarah Rapp)."

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Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Songs- John Stuart Hamblen Thanks Judi Cole!

A Neat Story





This is such a great story !






Back in the 50's there was a well known radio

host/comedian/song writer in Hollywood named

Stuart Hamblen who was noted for his drinking,

womanizing, partying, etc.



One of his bigger hits at the time was

"I won't go hunting with you Jake,

but I'll go chasing women."



One day, along came a young preacher holding

a tent revival. Hamblen had him on his radio show

presumably to poke fun at him.



In order to gather more material for his show,

Hamblen showed up at one of the revival meetings.



Early in the service the preacher announced,

"There is one man in this audience who is a big fake."

There were probably others who thought the same thing,

but Hamblen was convinced that he was the one the preacher

was talking about (some would call that conviction)

but he was having none of that.



Still the words continued to haunt him until a couple

of nights later he showed up drunk at the preacher's

hotel door around 2AM demanding that the preacher

pray for him!



But the preacher refused, saying, "This is between you and God

and I'm not going to get in the middle of it."



But he did invite Stuart in and they talked until

about 5 AM at which point Stuart dropped to his

knees and with tears, cried out to God.



But that is not the end of the story.

Stuart quit drinking, quit chasing women,

quit everything that was 'fun.' Soon he began

to lose favour with the Hollywood crowd.



He was ultimately fired by the radio station when

he refused to accept a beer company as a sponsor.



Hard times were upon him. He tried writing a couple

of "Christian" songs but the only one that had

much success was "This Old House",

written for his friend Rosemary Clooney.



As he continued to struggle, a long time friend

named John took him aside and told him,

"All your troubles started when you 'got religion,'

was it worth it all?"

Stuart answered simply, "Yes."



Then his friend asked, "You liked your booze so much,

don't you ever miss it?" And his answer was,

"No." John then said, "I don't understand how

you could give it up so easily."



And Stuart's response was, "It's no big secret.

All things are possible with God."

To this John said, "That's a catchy phrase.

You should write a song about it."



And as they say, "The rest is history."



The song Carl Stuart Hamblen wrote was "It Is No Secret."



"It is no secret what God can do.

What He's done for others, He'll do for you.



With arms wide open, He'll welcome you.

It is no secret, what God can do...."









By the way... the friend was John Wayne.

And the young preacher who refused to pray for

Stuart Hamblen?

...That was Billy Graham.



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