THANKSGIVING THAT SURVIVES WAR
Martin Rinkart, in the early seventeenth century, wrote one of the great hymns of Thanksgiving during the Thirty Year War. He was the pastor in a city of refuse during the war. There was famine and pestilence. He buried over 4,000 in one year, including several members of his family. It was in that context of tragedy and pain that he wrote a well-loved hymn: “Now Thank We All Our God, With Heart and Hands and Voices.”
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