“the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperilling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions”
As the door burst open and a furious soldier rushed in, she spread her hands over the child and cried: “Lord Jesus, since You love me,
Now spread Your wings above me…”
Now thank we all our God
With hearts and hands and voices,
Who wondrous things has done,
In whom His world rejoices
Pastor Nicolai wrote this hymn in the midst of a devastating plague and while burying dozens of people a week.
