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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...
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.
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.
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.
12 gru 2018 · The original manuscript of 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.
Whatever my lot, thou hast taught me to say, It is well, it is well with my soul. With this hymn comes one of the most heartrending stories in the annals of hymnody. The author, Horatio G. Spafford (1828-1888), was a Presbyterian layman from Chicago.
