"It is Well With My Soul" - Michael Warren
Channel: East Liberty Presbyterian Church
Date: 27/03/2020

Michael Warren, director of the Journey Praise Team at East Liberty Presbyterian, offers this encouraging video of him singing the first verse and refrain of the beautiful hymn "It Is Well With My Soul."

This text is a remarkable expression of faith born of grief. The author,  Horatio G. Spafford (1828-1888), was an active Presbyterian layman who had just lost four daughters in a tragic shipwreck in 1876. He wrote this text while sailing to Paris to meet his wife, who had survived. The tune VILLE DU HAVRE is named for the ship that sank and and was composed by Spafford family friend, Philip P. Bliss (1838-1876). Bliss and his wife died later that same year in a tragic train wreck.

1. 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.

(Additional verses not included in this video)
2. Though Satan should buffet, though trials should come,
let this blest assurance control:
that Christ has regarded my helpless estate,
and has shed his own blood for my soul.
Refrain

3. 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!
Refrain

4. O Lord, haste the day when my 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.
Refrain