Most people know the story behind this hymn, but I’ll repeat it again, just in case some readers haven’t heard it. Horatio Spafford, an attorney was close to Dwight Moody and decided to visit Moody’s evangelistic meetings in England. At the last minute an urgent business matter detained Spafford in Chicago, so his wife and four daughters boarded the ocean liner alone, and he planned to follow. On November 22, 1873, the ship collided with an iron sailing vessel and sank. Spafford’s wife was rescued, but all of his children perished. He immediately book passage to join his wife in Wales, where the survivors were taken. The evening his ship passed over the place where his family’s ship went down, Spafford was unable to sleep. He told himself, “It is well; the will of God be done.” Later he wrote his famous hymn based on these words. (the melody was written by Philip Bliss). It is truly a tribute to enduring tribulation with faith.
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