Gerhard and Walther

It was appropriate that He [the Holy Ghost] should come like unto wind, since He proceeds from the Father and the Son by an eternal breath.—Johann Gerhard, Sacred Meditations XXII

There once was a time when Christ was almost completely silenced in Christendom. This was the time before the Reformation. Mary and the so-called saints had almost entirely displaced Christ from Christianity and occupied His place. There is no longer such a silence about Christ.—C. F .W. Walther, God Grant It!, p. 882.