HYMN OF TODAY

Hello steemians, happy new week to you all. I will love to share the hymn of today to you all. I love this hymn so much, and I'm certain you will love it too. Please, sing with all attention towards heaven, and your soul will be blessed, Amen.

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Hymn Title: It Is Well With My Soul.
Author: Horatio G. Spafford ( 1828-1888 )
Year written: 1873
Scriptural Reference: 2 Kings 4:26; Psalm 146:1
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INSPIRATION OF THE HYMN
According to research, it was discovered that Horatio G. Spafford got his inspiration of It Is Well With My Soul from an incident that occured during his lifetime.
Horatio G. Spafford who was a lovely husband with five beautiful children ( a son and four daughters) and also a lawyer by profession lost all he had, within a twinkle of an eye.
The first was the death of his 2years old son and also the damaged of his properties in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.
As a result of the economic downturn of his business in 1873, he planned on traveling with his family to Europe on the SS Ville du Havre, but there was a later change of plan that made him delayed, because of business concerning zoning problems following the Great Chicago Fire which made him sent his family ahead of him, hoping to meet then soon. On the process of crossing the Atlantic Ocean, there was a rapid ship sank after a collision with a sea vessel, the Loch Earn, and his daughters died, but his wife Anne survived it.

Then Spaffords later had three more children. On February 11, 1880, their son, Horatio Goertner Spafford, died at the age of four, of scarlet fever. Their daughters were Bertha Hedges Spafford (born March 24, 1878) and Grace Spafford (born January 18, 1881). Their Presbyterian church regarded their tragedy as divine punishment.
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After all he had experienced in hislife time, he was struck by the title and he penned down the lyrics of the hymn "It Is Well With My Soul."

When peace, like a river, attendeth my way,
When sorrows like sea billows roll;
Whatever my lot, Thou hast taught me to say,
It is well, it is well with my soul.
Refrain:
It is well with my soul,
It is well, it is well with my soul.
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.
My sin—oh, the bliss of this glorious thought!—
My sin, not in part but the whole,
Is nailed to the cross, and I bear it no more,
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul!
For me, be it Christ, be it Christ hence to live:
If Jordan above me shall roll,
No pang shall be mine, for in death as in life
Thou wilt whisper Thy peace to my soul.
But, Lord, ’tis for Thee, for Thy coming we wait,
The sky, not the grave, is our goal;
Oh, trump of the angel! Oh, voice of the Lord!
Blessed hope, blessed rest of my soul!
And Lord, haste the day when the faith shall be sight,
The clouds be rolled back as a scroll;
The trump shall resound, and the Lord shall descend,
Even so, it is well with my soul.

THE VIDEO

The video below was gotten from the youtube channel of BYU Vocal Point, listen and be bless.

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