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Concordia: a collection of hymns and spiritual songs (1918) [330] Young People's Luther League Convention Song Book [331] [332] The Parish School Hymnal (1926) [333] [334] The Primary Hymn Book, Hymns and Songs for Little Children (1936) [335] United Lutheran Church in America. Common Service Book of the Lutheran Church with Hymnal (1917) [286]
An English version less literal in translation but more popular among Protestant denominations outside Lutheranism is "A mighty fortress is our God, a bulwark never failing", translated by Frederick H. Hedge in 1853. Another popular English translation is by Thomas Carlyle and begins "A safe stronghold our God is still".
The reformer Martin Luther, a prolific hymnodist, regarded music and especially hymns in German as important means for the development of faith.. Luther wrote songs for occasions of the liturgical year (Advent, Christmas, Purification, Epiphany, Easter, Pentecost, Trinity), hymns on topics of the catechism (Ten Commandments, Lord's Prayer, creed, baptism, confession, Eucharist), paraphrases of ...
The lyrics first appeared as a poem in the context of an 1860 novel called Say and Seal, written by her older sister Susan Warner (1819–1885), in which the words were spoken as a comforting poem to a dying child. [2] The tune was added in 1862 by William Batchelder Bradbury (1816–1868). Along with his tune, Bradbury added his own chorus ...
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Finding shelter in a gap in the gorge, he was struck by the title and scribbled down the initial lyrics. [3] According to E. J. Fasham, a more likely inspiration for the text is a 1673 sermon by Daniel Brevint (who had been the Dean of Durham Cathedral).
Unionists point to the Battle of the Boyne as decisive in achieving a constitutional monarchy in the United Kingdom.Modern historians also agree that this conflict, otherwise known as the Glorious Revolution and played out in Scotland as well, was the conclusion of the English Civil War of 1642–1651 [1] Indeed, King James II as a very young Duke of York was present with his father Charles at ...