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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 ...
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.
It is well, it is well with my soul! 4 For me, be it Christ, be it Christ hence to live; If dark hours about me shall roll, No pang shall be mine, for in death as in life Thou wilt whisper Thy peace to 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.
“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.
2 gru 2022 · One of modern Christianity's most widely used hymns of consolation is "It Is Well with My Soul." The lyrics by Horatio Spafford were formed in the crucible of a family's unspeakable tragedy and affirmation of trust in God's providence.
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 ...
