“The text of How Great
Thou Art was written by a 25-year-old minister in Sweden named Carl
Gustav Boberg. After attending a church meeting, he walked two miles along the coast
of Sweden in a thunderstorm. The experience inspired him to write the words,
which were later translated into English by Stuart K. Hine. On one occasion I
was in a mission conference when a missionary asked me, ‘Why did the Savior
have to suffer so much?’ I reached for our hymnbook, turned to this song, and
answered his question with this verse:
‘And when I think that God, his Son not sparing, sent him to
die, I scarce can take it in,
That on the cross, my burden gladly bearing, He bled and
died to take away my sin.’
Jesus suffered so much because of His love for you and me.
What a message! Worthy music is powerful. It has power to make us humble,
prayerful, and grateful.” – President Russell M. Nelson
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