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To the story behind the hymns,
to me or to the story of the

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hymn. How firm, man,
how firm a foundation has been given to

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the faith of God in his eternal
word of love. What else he could

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add in his book if all to
his children. Mr How firm is one

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of those hymns that reminds us.
A good handful of promises from the scriptures.

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It is overflowing with it saturated says
colossians three that it must abound in

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us. The word of Christ and
hymns are a good way to help you

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be meditating on the word of God
every day at every moment. Simnologists do

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not reach any consensus to be able
to define who is the author of this

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Hymn it seems that in a thousand
seven hundred and eighty- seven, when

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this hymn came to light in a
hymn- selection hymn- selection hymns was

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edited with the inscription K as author. It seems that in other later edited

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hymns the letters KN were found.
Some make guesses pointing to the possibility that

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the author was R Kin, the
music director of the Laine Baptist Church in

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London, whose pastor Dr. John
Rippon was in charge of including in his

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selection before the death of the said
pastor. Eleven editions were published in one

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thousand eight hundred and thirty- six
in England. Also in the United States.

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The Baptist churches of Philadelphia made another
edition in one thousand eight hundred twenty.

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Irrelevant men like Theodor Russell, Andrew
Jackson, Probert Lee and Woodrow Wilson,

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had this hymn as their favorite,
which has been said to sound like

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a sermon. Put in verse,
all these men asked that it be sung

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either on their deathbed or at their
funeral. In terms of music, it

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also does not seem to know for
certain who its author is. Who translated

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the anthem into Spanish. He was
Pastor Vicente Mendoza of the State of Puebla, Mexico,