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Now the story behind the tibunos,
the story of the anthem. Gratus is

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to tell the pleasant story is to
tell the story of Heavenly favor of Christ

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and of His glory, of Christ
and of His love. I am pleased

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to refer to it, for I
know it is the truth and nothing satisfies

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my anxiety as she does. How
beautiful this story is. My theme in

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glory will be to exalt the story
of Christ and his love. Katherine Hankee

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was born in one thousand eight hundred
and thirty- four in a wealthy family.

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His greatest joy was to see the
poor and humble of Heart and Christ.

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From a very young age he studied
Bible studies in the city of London.

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When he turned thirty, his health
deteriorated considerably and he was told that

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he would have to reduce his time
spent on Bible studies and rest for a

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year. He rested, but did
not fall asleep. During this time he

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wrote an extensive poem about Christ.
The second half of this poem, according

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to Grato' s stanzas, is
telling the story. Although Catherine had originally

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composed the music of this hymn,
it was eventually William heff Fisher who composed

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the melody and added the chorus to
publish this beautiful hymn, as we sing

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it today. In one thousand eight
hundred and sixty- six, Katherine Hankie

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wrote a long poem about the life
of Christ. It was composed of about

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fifty verses. The first half,
which he wrote in January of that year,

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was titled La Iss Desired. The
second half, written in November,

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was titled Story told is interesting to
see how God often changes man' s

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ways, and this poem is a
good example. First, the size of

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this poem was something that would discourage
any musician trying to play music and,

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second, it had two separate songs. Even so, God allowed two men

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who did not know each other to
take four stanzas from each side and turn

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them into two evangelisms. It is
also interesting to see that both hymns were

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written in the same order as Miss
Hankey. He wrote the poem In one

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thousand eight hundred and sixty- seven, while William Howard Donny was attending an

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international WYAM convention being held in Montreal, Canada, c s s s c

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u R A r N o n
NS. Major Russell, a famous English

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general recite the first part of Miss
Hanke' s poem, which he had

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on a wrinkled sheet of paper.
Tears ran down his tanned cheeks as he

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read it and soon there would be
not a single dry eye in the whole

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meeting, as those who had attended
captured a renewed image of God’ s

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amazing Love. When the meeting was
over, Mr Donny got a copy of

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the poem and put it in his
pocket. A few weeks later, on

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a hot summer day, Mr Donny
was traveling in a carriage from Glence Fals,

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New York, to the white mountains, and on that journey he began

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to read Miss Hankey' s poem. He soon began to remember the first

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time he had heard it in Canada
and before the trip was over, he

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had written a music for him.
That night at Crafhor House. The guests

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gathered in the hotel hall and sang
it for the first time. It was

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a year later, in nineteen hundred
and sixty- eight, that William Heffisher,

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a well- known musician from Philadelphia, who in one thousand eight hundred

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and seventy- six would lead the
chorus of Muody Sankie' s great gatherings

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in that city, wrote the music
for four stanzas taken from the second part

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of Miss Hankey' s poem of
the two hymns. I am not mistaken

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to say that Grato, that is, history, is one of the most

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used and still one of the favorites
of both young and old.