The words echoed throughout the historic U.S. Capitol rotunda, comforting those who sang them and startling some of the tourists who'd just stumbled in.
"Then sings my soul, my savior God, to thee. How great thou art. How great thou art."
The hymn, familiar to most American Christians, praises a God powerful enough to create the universe and loving enough to forgive sins. On this balmy Washington, D.C., evening, it also honored those willing to worship that God even when it puts their lives at risk.
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