| Dontate, Buy Me A Coffee - bit.ly It Is Well With My Soul Hillsong 2011. Please buy this album as all proceeds go to QLD Flood Relief Appeal. Please feel free to, request the lyrics, to any song. And if you liked please, Favorite and give a thumbs up. Story Behind the Original Version of This Hymn. I was informed of this story in the comments of this video by www.youtube.com Horacio Spafford was a man familiar with death and tragedy. The Spafford's were grieving over the death of their first son to Scarlett Fever when the great Chicago fire decimated the city. Horacio, a successful lawyer and real estate investor, lost everything. After the fire, Horacio and his wife, Anna, were attempting to pick up the pieces when a good friend, the great Evangelist preacher, DL Moody, encouraged him to take a much needed vacation. Moody was doing a preaching stint in England and invited the Spafford family to join him there. Horacio had some business to attend to so he decided to send his wife and daughters ahead, planning to meet up with them shortly. In route, the Spafford's ship collided with an iron sailing vessel, and all four daughters drowned. Anna was one of only a handful of survivors. Horacio immediately departed for England to join his devastated wife. When the ship's captain told him that they were passing over the scene of the accident, he retired to his cabin. Overcome with sorrow, he wrote, "When sorrows like sea billows roll, whatever my lot, thou has taught me to say ... |
