239. Built on the Rock

Text Information
First Line: Built on the rock the church does stand
Title: Built on the Rock
Author: Nicolai F.S. Grundtvig (1837)
Translator: Carl Doving (1909, alt.)
Meter: 88.88.888
Language: English
Publication Date: 1998
Scripture:
Topic: Church: Nature and Strength
Tune Information
Name: KIRKEN DEN ER ET GAMMELT HUS
Composer: Ludwig M. Lindeman (1840)
Meter: 88.88.888
Key: c minor or modal


Text Information:

A skeptic who returned to the faith, Swede Nicolai Grundtvig was as doctrinally forthright as this hymn. He is called 'the father of the public schools in Scandinavia'


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