Many people are familiar with the story of how "It Is Well With My Soul" came to be written. Horatio Spafford, after losing his young son to pneumonia, and nearly all of his business and possessions in the Great Fire of Chicago in the same year, was able to recover somewhat financially in the next few years, enough to make a family trip to Europe to join the revival meetings of Dwight L. Moody. Detained by business, he sent his wife and four daughters on the journey, planning to follow them a few days later. The ship his family was on sank catastrophically, and his four daughters were lost. As he sailed to join his wife in England, he passed over the spot where the ship carrying his daughters had sunk. He wrote the lyrics to this hymn during that voyage.
Many people are familiar with the story of how "It Is Well With My Soul" came to be written. Horatio Spafford, after losing his young son to pneumonia, and nearly all of his business and possessions in the Great Fire of Chicago in the same year, was able to recover somewhat financially in the next few years, enough to make a family trip to Europe to join the revival meetings of Dwight L. Moody. Detained by business, he sent his wife and four daughters on the journey, planning to follow them a few days later. The ship his family was on sank catastrophically, and his four daughters were lost. As he sailed to join his wife in England, he passed over the spot where the ship carrying his daughters had sunk. He wrote the lyrics to this hymn during that voyage.
1. https://www.staugustine.com/story/lifestyle/faith/2014/10/17/story-behind-song-it-well-my-soul/985525007/
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