Southern Sweden was the place where “How Great Thou Art” had its beginning in 1886. It was written in the home of author and editor, Carl Boberg, a member of the Swedish Parliament from 1912 to 1931. The song was known in several countries before it finally reached the shores […]
Carl Gustav Boberg
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Carl Gustav Boberg (1859–1940) was a Swedish poet, preacher, and politician, best known for writing the lyrics to the hymn “O Store Gud” (O Great God), which is widely known in English as “How Great Thou Art.” Boberg was born on August 16, 1859, in Mönsterås, Småland, Sweden, and he […]
O Lord my God, when I in awesome wonderConsider all the works Thy hands have made,I see the stars, I hear the rolling thunder,Thy pow’r thru-out the universe displayed! Then sings my soul, my Savior God, to Thee;How great Thou art, how great Thou art!Then sings my soul, my Savior […]