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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 ...
Robert Cottrill, “It is well with my soul,” Wordwise Hymns (26 Feb. 2018): https://wordwisehymns.com/2018/02/26/it-is-well-with-my-soul-2/. A history of the hymn by Horatio Spafford and Philip Bliss.
“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.
19 mar 2021 · The lyrics to the song, “It Is Well With My Soul” was written by Heratio Spafford, a successful lawyer, a loving husband, the father of five precious children, and a strong Christian. This man faced more tragedy in a few short years than most do in a lifetime.
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, it is well with my soul! 2 Though Satan should buffet, though trials should come, Let this blest assurance control, That Christ hath regarded my helpless estate, And hath shed His own blood for my soul.
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.
