A Hymn Interpretation of the Baptist Hymnal No 265.

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A HYMN INTERPRETATION OF THE BAPTIST HYMNAL NO 265. IT IS WELL WITH MY SOUL- HORATIO GATES SPAFFORD 1828-1888. Horatio Gates Spafford was born in north troy, New York in 1828. He went to school in New York and was trained to be a lawyer. When he was twenty-eight years old, he moved to Chicago and set up his law offices there. He became a very successful lawyer. He got married and God blessed his home with a son and four daughters. A family physician advised him to take his family for a restful visit to Europe as a way of overcoming his wife’s depression over the lost of friends and money during a fire outbreak that happen to them. Their son was to remain in Chicago to care for his business. He was not able to go with his family again because of some reasons, he to stay in Chicago for some few days. His wife and their four daughters left America on board the S S Ville du Harve and not far from the coast of England on Nov. 22, 1873 the ship was struck by an English sailing vessel. The ship was badly damaged, and all the passengers were asked to assemble on deck. His wife got her four children on deck and knelt with them to pray. All the girls had given their lives to Jesus, so she prayed that God might spare them if possible but if not, all of them were prepared to die and meet the Savior. A few minutes later the ship sank, and all of them were tossed into the water. People in a life-boat that had been launched saw his wife struggling in the water pulled her to safety, but none of the children could be located. On Dec. 1st, his wife landed at Cardiff, Wales, and tabled the message to him “Saved alone”. He boarded the next available ship in order to join his wife. He had taken a flower wreath on board. As they neared the spot in the ocean where the villa du Harve had sunk, the captain stood with him and prayed, and he cast the wreath upon the

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