Saddest songs.

"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."

I'm moved whenever I sing this. The author, Horatio Spafford wrote this in 1873. He sent his wife and four daughters ahead to Europe whilst he remained in Chicago to attend to a business difficulty. During the crossing, their vessel collided with another and sank. His wife survived, but his four daughters all perished.

Spafford immediately left America to join his wife in Europe, and he wrote this hymn as he neared the place of the shipwreck.
 

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