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This tune is supposed to have been sun. dur
ing Duric's progress to the Church OF St. Giles,
in ELiuburg> on his return from exile as nc
is coming from Lcith to Ediuburg,' says Cal
2UO meu of the inhabitants. Their numbers
still increased till he came within the Neither"
ton. There they began to slug the l24th fsaltn,
Now Israel may say etc., and sang LII ioui
parts, known to most oi the people. 1het
came up the street till they came to the great
Kirk, singing this all the way, to the number oi
2OO0.'' This was truly glorious specimen OF
and now We must add ,,>,s., few n,Ssf!s Tos2s
on the Lutheran e'oraleueh arst Lo'4sas Mit5
tie music on single sheets, one. Or TWO per
hans upon sheet, aud distributed among the
neoule Many surreptinous coples ol these
were circulated. This produced, iii l543, 4 char
follows, on the title-page Of an edition OF his
hyun-book, thus translated by the kew Mr.
Allon:
Many false masters now hymns make
Learn to judge right. and good care take; ,1,uo,
There comes the devil to cneat and to lurch.
g When Luther took up the cause Of the Ref
; ornatiou, and had to remodel the services o1
the Church, he believed hc could not better
enhance their beauty than by appeatnE to hlS
nations love for soug ana lostGFS @ ts thG ptss rsy
he made trauslatiuns from the Latin hfMfls
n1.rnnsly r1 in use in the Church, paranhrascd
scyeral Of the psalms and canttcles OF Holy
Scripture, himself wrote many new HYMNS; anu
requested bis friends to contribute ot,e ,s.s ~
times already existing in the Church, which lle
snar;nrjy modified to suit bis new metres; of
other tunes the origin Is unknown, anu olhess
are derived from secular sources
n This latter respect Luther may be clted as
an rvatnnlc for the use OF tunes no: originally
c,uposed Tor tue Church. lie cared lltt!e 10! ",
thc source OF lis music so long as it was fittett
for his purpose, and the tunes known 10 tle
ueop1e he considered the Dest ca1euiaIeu ~ ~
tract them to his service.
The first edition OF his enlargcl hvmn-oootS
w.s edited by George Rhaw, job WaltAer, an1
Ranst. in Lcipsic- 10 these musicians. lncluo.
in,r Ludwig Scul, we are Indebted 1or many ~
tLc Lutheran melodies retained III the tnurc'i,
~, fonni in our own Aymnals Of the present
day.
Germany soon became filled with sacred song
anil within q century aud half Ut the Kclof
nation 1000 choralcs are known to nave oeel
composed. Many OF these tine tunes are no"
happily becoming popular III Enstanu 't,nuc hv III,
| editors OF ..Tne Chorale Book for England
that in the middle Of tho sixteenth century
! aIuthcran hymn-books were introduced 'nls H.
! ScanIinayia, where, especially IL sweden. 1ns
additions OF home growth. have remained up Il
| the present time tine stock o1 tue natlG:ia
hrmn.hook. Courlaud, Llvon'a, and F!n
| land also received these sacred straln
into their service, ana ,ot;a,oa stM, fI.ar' har
thet = Lutheran hymn-book was printed AMI
| nmhl,shed i1 the icelandic language At oka!polt
~ iceland, in the year 1894. OF which SIKH
edition appeared in 1851" ,.u
The fountain source for German ;, nsnan 1st!a;
,,o,o<l1, is Luther's .tGcystlichc Liedcr," Which
Contains many beautiful specimens, many com
onsad hv the great reformer himself, other