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Thread #93597   Message #1817644
Posted By: Wilfried Schaum
24-Aug-06 - 02:50 AM
Thread Name: What makes a good hymn?
Subject: RE: What makes a good hymn?
But sometimes the text should be changed for oecumenical and brotherly reasons:
"Keep us, o Lord, by thy word and stop the pope's and Turk's murder" was adopted as the battle hymn of the reformation period. Now the second line is changed into "and stop the murder of your foes" (but I'm still in favour of the original version - singing it I still can hear the step of the Lutheran pikes)