Christopher Dock, Hymn with Translation (1773)
“ The good that does not perish Is only found above. Seek God, the highest goal, With spirit and with soul. Then you will find a rapture The heart cannot control. Is indolence a pleasure? Does worldliness allure? ”
Christopher Dock, Hymn with Translation (1773)
“ In whom we place our trust, They bring at last together The pious and the just. ↑ This hymn first appeared about 1773, in Vol. II, No. 15, of Saur's Geistliches Magazien, and has been reproduced in the Unpartheyisches Gesang Buch, published in Lancaster in 1804, and other Hymn Books of the Mennonites. In translating, the effort has been made to preserve the thought, versification, metre and rhyme — a somewhat difficult task. ”
