Christian song it is well with my soul

Q: Who sings the Christian song It Is Well With My Soul?

It Is Well With My Soul is a hymn penned by hymnist Horatio Spafford and composed by Philip Bliss. ... Hillsong Church version..

Q: Is It Is Well With My Soul A funeral song?

It is Well With My Soul is one Christian hymn that expresses faith in God and peace with loss. Its a predictably terrific number for the funerals or memorial services of people who were ready to die.

Q: Who wrote the poem It Is Well With My Soul?

1873) Draft manuscript copy of hymn It is Well With My Soul by Horatio Gates Spafford . to 1878. [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/mamcol.016/.

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Background[edit]
Original lyrics[edit]
Hillsong Church version[edit]
Notes[edit]
References[edit]
External links[edit]
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Who wrote the poem It Is Well With My Soul?

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“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.

During a weekly Music & the Spoken Word broadcast, The Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square performed a Mack Wilberg arrangement of “It Is Well with My Soul.” The song was preceded by a beautiful spoken word message, delivered by announcer Lloyd Newell. The message focused on how life can be unpredictable and challenging, but faith and trust in God can help us to overcome hardship and tragedy. Below is a video and text of the spoken word:

It Is Well with My Soul - Spoken Word by Lloyd Newell

Life can be so unpredictable—joys and sorrows, beautiful blessings and distressing difficulties can come unexpectedly. Our life’s dreams and plans can change in an instant. We all know this to be true. So how can we find peace amid such turbulence?

Horatio Spafford knew something about life’s unexpected challenges. He was a successful attorney and real estate investor who lost a fortune in the great Chicago fire of 1871. Around the same time, his beloved four-year-old son died of scarlet fever.

Thinking a vacation would do his family some good, he sent his wife and four daughters on a ship to England, planning to join them after he finished some pressing business at home. However, while crossing the Atlantic Ocean, the ship was involved in a terrible collision and sunk. More than 200 people lost their lives, including all four of Horatio Spafford’s precious daughters. His wife, Anna, survived the tragedy. Upon arriving in England, she sent a telegram to her husband that began: “Saved alone. What shall I do?”

Horatio immediately set sail for England. At one point during his voyage, the captain of the ship, aware of the tragedy that had struck the Spafford family, summoned Horatio to tell him that they were now passing over the spot where the shipwreck had occurred.1

As Horatio thought about his daughters, words of comfort and hope filled his heart and mind. He wrote them down, and they have since become a well-beloved hymn:

When peace like a river, attendeth my way,

When sorrows like sea billows roll—

Whatever my lot, thou hast taught me to know

It is well, it is well with my soul.2

Perhaps we cannot always say that everything is well in all aspects of our lives. There will always be storms to face, and sometimes there will be tragedies. But with faith in a loving God and with trust in His divine help, we can confidently say, “It is well, it is well with my soul.”

1. See Randy Petersen, Be Still My Soul: The Inspiring Stories behind 175 of the Most-Loved Hymns (1973), 153.

2. “It Is Well with My Soul,” reproduction of original manuscript, spaffordhymn.com.

It Is Well With My Soul
by Horatio Spafford
Horatio Spafford
Genre	Hymn
Written	1873
Meter	11.8.11.9 with refrain
Melody	"Ville du Havre" by Philip Bliss

"It Is Well With My Soul" 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 of a wide variety of Christian fellowships.[a]

Background[edit]

This hymn was written after traumatic events in Spafford's life. The first two were the death of his four-year-old son and the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, which ruined him financially (he had been a successful lawyer and had invested significantly in property in the area of Chicago that was extensively damaged by the great fire).[1] His business interests were further hit by the economic downturn of 1873, at which time he had planned to travel to England with his family on the SS Ville du Havre, to help with D. L. Moody's upcoming evangelistic campaigns. In a late change of plan, he sent the family ahead while he was delayed on business concerning zoning problems following the Great Chicago Fire. While crossing the Atlantic Ocean, the ship sank rapidly after a collision with a sea vessel, the Loch Earn, and all four of Spafford's daughters died.[2] His wife Anna survived and sent him the now famous telegram, "Saved alone …". Shortly afterwards, as Spafford traveled to meet his grieving wife, he was inspired to write these words as his ship passed near where his daughters had died.[3] Bliss called his tune Ville du Havre, from the name of the stricken vessel.[4]

The sinking of the steamship Ville du Havre

Original lyrics[edit]

It is Well with My Soul, first print 1876

When peace like a river, attendeth my way,
When sorrows like sea billows roll;
Whatever my lot, Thou hast taught me to know[b]
It is well, it is well, with my soul.

Refrain
It is well, (it is well),
With my soul, (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 has 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,
A song in the night, oh my soul![c]

[5]

Hillsong Church version[edit]

"It Is Well With My Soul"

Single by Hillsong Church

Released

2011

Recorded

2011

Genre

Contemporary worship

Label

Hillsong Music Australia

Hillsong Music Australia
Singles singles chronology

"It Is Well With My Soul"
(2011)

"Man of Sorrows"
(2013)

Hillsong Live team recorded a special single in December 2010 to aid victims of the 2010–2011 flooding in Queensland, Australia. It reached the ARIA Singles Chart Top 100[6] with all proceeds from the sale of this single going to the relief effort. The song features Darlene Zschech as lead vocalist, with a new added bridge composed by Reuben Morgan and Ben Fielding, and was recorded in Sydney, Australia in three days, mixed in England overnight and mastered in Los Angeles, before being released in the iTunes Store the following weekend.[citation needed]

Notes[edit]

^ The presence of a refrain makes the item technically a gospel song versus a hymn in the strict sense.[citation needed]
^ "know" (at the end of the third line) was changed to "say".
^ "A song in the night, oh my soul" (last line) was changed to "Even so, it is well with my soul".

References[edit]

^ "Family Tragedy - The American Colony in Jerusalem | Exhibitions - Library of Congress". www.loc.gov. January 12, 2005.
^ "It is Well with My Soul: Historical Origins of the Hymn & the Tune". YouTube. October 27, 2015. Archived from the original on 2021-12-21. Retrieved November 1, 2020.
^ "The American Colony in Jerusalem, 1870-2006". Retrieved May 2, 2013.
^ McCann, Forrest M. (1997). Hymns and History: An Annotated Survey of Sources. Abilene, Texas: ACU Press Archived 2008-01-12 at the Wayback Machine. ISBN 0-89112-058-0, pp. 154, 327-328, 359-360, 520, 597.
^ "History". Kosinski Studio. Archived from the original on March 11, 2013. Retrieved March 26, 2013.
^ "The ARIA Report" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). 31 January 2001. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 February 2011. Retrieved 22 June 2014.

External links[edit]

Wikisource has original text related to this article:

Library of Congress item mamcol.016 High resolution images of the restored original manuscript (up to 22 MB) front AND back at the Library of Congress. (Includes an extra verse on the back, as well as notes from his prayer meetings)
SpaffordHymn.com The original Hymn manuscript
The American Colony in Jerusalem (A Library of Congress Exhibition)
McCann, Forrest Mason (1997). Hymns & History: An Annotated Survey of Sources. Abilene, Texas: ACU Press, pp. 327–328, 520, 597. ISBN 0-89112-058-0

Who sings the Christian song It Is Well With My Soul?

"It Is Well With My Soul" is a hymn penned by hymnist Horatio Spafford and composed by Philip Bliss. ... Hillsong Church version..

Who sings the new version of It Is Well With My Soul?

27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Getty Music today released the official music video for Keith and Kristyn Getty's new rendition of the timeless hymn, "It Is Well With My Soul." The song is featured in the forthcoming film, "Sabina: Tortured for Christ, the Nazi Years," which shares the inspiring, true story of Sabina (Oster) ...

Is It Is Well With My Soul A funeral song?

"It is Well With My Soul" is one Christian hymn that expresses faith in God and peace with loss. It's a predictably terrific number for the funerals or memorial services of people who were ready to die.

Who wrote the poem It Is Well With My Soul?

1873) Draft manuscript copy of hymn "It is Well With My Soul" by Horatio Gates Spafford . to 1878. [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/mamcol.016/.