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"It Is Well" is one of my favourite hymns of all time, and I'm sure I'm not alone here! When my good friend Jonny Robinson found out we were doing a new version of this classic he was sceptical: "you do realise it's pretty much the best hymn ever already?" So what gives us the right to meddle with it?Well, if you know and love Mr Bliss' original melody then please, keep singing it! But if even a single person re-discovers these amazing words because of our new version then I will feel that our desecration has been justified. They're amazing words of Christian hope built, not on naive wishful thinking, but on the kind of joy that survives shipwrecks. |
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In 1873 Horatio Spafford put his wife and three daughters onto a boat from Chicago to England. He wrote the words to this hymn - "It Is Well With My Soul" - after hearing that his four daughters had drowned half way in a tragic sea accident. |
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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. |
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