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SUNDAY THE FIRST OF NOVEMBER 335
Latin hymn Salve caput cruentaium in its German version
composed in 1659 by Paul Gerhard :
O sacred Head, surrounded
By crown of piercing thorn !
O bleeding Head, so wounded,
Reviled and put to scorn !
Death’s pallid hue comes o’er Thee,
The glow of life decays.
Yet angel hosts adore Thee
And tremble as they gaze !
In mine own hour of passion,
Good Shepherd, think of me
With Thy most sweet compassion,
Unworthy though I be.
In Thy sweet arms abiding
For ever would I rest,
In Thy dear love confiding,
And with Thy presence blest !
"^
When the last note of Cleving’s sonorous voice—which,
though I could not see the singer from where I sat, could easily
be distinguished and rang with the fervour of devotion—had
died away, Franz Xaver Miinch, Divisional Chaplain of Diissel-
dorf, ascended the pulpit. He was a tall and powerfully built
man. With authoritative dignity he stood and looked down
upon his congregation of all grades and all arms, of horny-
handed soldiers and Sisters of Mercy, of Protestants and
Catholics. The service was a joint service for all creeds. The
priest himself was a Catholic. But now, in the German
nation’s greatest hour, all barriers of creed were broken ; there
was no longer any distinction between Protestants, Catholics
or Jews—there were only Germans. " We have now all become
as one man, and we all have one God."
But the priest stood in the pulpit and delivered the follow-
ing sermon :
" Dearly beloved friends and comrades !
" ’
O Sacred Head surrounded !
’
This is how the German
master Griinewald, the placid, great mystic, saw Him when
he pictured that Divine ’
Man of Sorrow,’ His pain and His
wounds, and His bruised and pierced body ! This is how
Bach beheld Him when in his ’
Passion according to St,
’ "Ancient and Modern Hymns," version shghtly modified.—Translator.
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