“Praise the Lord in song, for He has done excellent things; let this be known throughout the earth” (Isaiah 12:5).
There is a story about the great composer, Johann Sebastian Bach that might need to be verified by the combined expertise of a music historian and a musicologist. In any case, the story begins with Bach stopping by his favorite tavern early one afternoon. While he was there, he heard a secular drinking song with a title that translates into English, “One Foot In The Grave.” After hearing the song, Bach went home, had his dinner, and helped Mrs. Bach put their eighteen children to bed. (That’s right, they
had eighteen children.) Then, having put the children to bed, he went over to the Church. We are now at the point of the story that I do not understand. It seems that, for some reason, there was a local ordinance prohibiting Johann Sebastian Bach and his wife from being in Church together after dark. (You…
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