Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear.

"During the midst of the [Thirty Years' War (1618-1648)], the city of Ulm, surrounded by Catholic armies outside and devastated by plague and famine inside, held a special celebration; it was the hundred-year anniversary of the presentation of the Augsburg Confession and the birthday of the Lutheran church. The celebration was to thank God for the restoration of the gospel through the work of the Reformation, for which God's people were most grateful, even if they would soon perish in the war! Can anyone imagine such a thing happening today?" Daniel Deutschlander, Theology of the Cross, page 66