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Text:Men Go to God
Author:Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Translator:Geoffrey Winthrop Young
Tune:HINUNTER IST DER SONNE
Adapter (Melody):Carlton R. Young
Composer:Melchior Vulpius

90. Men Go to God

Text Information
First Line: Men go to God when they are sore bestead
Title: Men Go to God
Translator: Geoffrey Winthrop Young
Author: Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Language: English
Publication Date: 1977
Copyright: Words reprinted with permission of SCM Press Ltd. and Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc.; from LETTERS AND PAPERS FROM PRISON by Dietrich Bonhoeffer.; © SCM Press Ltd. 1953, 1967, 1971. Original title: "Christians and Pagans".
Tune Information
Name: HINUNTER IST DER SONNE
Composer: Melchior Vulpius
Adapter (Melody): Carlton R. Young
Meter: 10 10.10 10.
Incipit: 55134 54321 55313
Key: d minor
Copyright: Music Copyright © 1972, 1977 by Agape. (A Division of Hope Publishing Co.) International Copyright Secured. All Rights Reserved.



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