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"It Is Well With My Soul", also known as "When Peace, Like A River", is a hymn penned by hymnist Horatio Spafford and composed by Philip Bliss. First published in Gospel Hymns No. 2 by Ira Sankey and Bliss (1876), it is possibly the most influential and enduring in the Bliss repertoire and is often taken as a choral model, appearing in hymnals ...
14 lut 2021 · The music for “It is Well with My Soul” was composed by Philip Bliss, a songwriter and gospel singer, and the hymn was first published in 1876 in a songbook produced by Ira Sankey, the song...
“It Is Well with My Soul” was composed by Philip Paul Bliss, with the lyrics by Horatio G. Spafford. The composer, Bliss, also wrote “More Holiness Give Me,” “Brightly Beams Our Father’s Mercy” and “Should You Feel Inclined to Censure,” which are included in the current hymnbook of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
During that time Mr. Spafford wrote the hymn “It is well with my soul” in commemoration of the death of his children. P.P. Bliss composed the music and sang it for the first time at a meeting in Farwell Hall.
The original manuscript of the Spafford’s hymn has only four verses, but later another verse was added. The music, which was written by Philip Bliss, was named after the ship on which Horatio and Anna’s daughters had died – Ville du Havre. Horatio Spafford died of malaria on 16th October 1888.
Horatio Spafford wrote, "It Is Well With My Soul." Most people recognize the lyrics, but few know the story behind the song and its writer.
Horatio Gates Spafford (October 20, 1828, Troy, New York – September 25, 1888, Jerusalem) [1] was an American lawyer and Presbyterian church elder. He is best known for penning the Christian hymn " It Is Well With My Soul " following the Great Chicago Fire [ 2 ] and the deaths of his four daughters on a transatlantic voyage aboard the S.S ...
