God, that Madest Earth and Heaven ("All Through the Night")

Reginald Heber, 1827 and Richard Whateley, 1855

Years ago, when my daughter was a teenager, she joined a Swedish women’s choir, which had been founded as the auxiliary to the men’s choir, at that time the longest-lived men’s choir in the United States. It folded some time ago, because they couldn’t get young men to join. The women’s choir soon followed. Yet there had been a long tradition of Swedi…