[1] Harms's trenchant style made him very popular, and he did great service for his cause especially in 1817, when, on the 300th anniversary of the Reformation, he published side by side with Luther's theses, ninety-five of his own, attacking reason as "the pope of our time" who "dismisses Christ from the altar and throws God's word from the pulpit.

"[1] As a musician, Harms sought to restore Lutheran hymns back to their original state.

The Renaissance-style tunes employed by the early Reformers had largely been smoothed out, such that the lively syncopations common to music of that era had been replaced by simple meters.

[citation needed] Besides volumes of sermons Harms published a good book on Pastoraltheologie (1830).

The Evangelical Reformed is a glorious Church; it holds and conforms itself chiefly to the Word of God.