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Reformation Day

Being born on the thirty-first of October often caused me no little grief growing up. I hated seeing the horrible images people put up, on my birthday! I hated having trick-or-treaters showing up on the doorstep in the middle of my party, and, to top it off, I hated having people call me a "boo baby" in stores!

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Nearer, my God, to Thee Part 2

By Christianna Hellwig with 2 Comments

I didn't expect to be doing a follow up post on my last one; but after I wrote about those other tunes, I just had to look for them on youtube, and once I heard them I just had to post them for you all to hear. They are both such beautiful moving tunes. That I think that

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Nearer My God to Thee/Naher, mein Gott, zu Dir

By Christianna Hellwig with 2 Comments

This moving song was written first by Sisters, Sarah Flower Adams and Eliza Flower in 1841 based on Genesis 28: 11-29. I cannot find the tune Eliza composed for her sister's lines any where, but the song was originally written for a hymn book by William Johnson Fox with whom the sisters were well acquainted. The song, however,

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Reformation Day

Nearer, my God, to Thee Part 2

Nearer My God to Thee/Naher, mein Gott, zu Dir