To the story behind the hymns, to me or to the story of the
hymn. How firm, man, how firm a foundation has been given to
the faith of God in his eternal word of love. What else he could
add in his book if all to his children. Mr How firm is one
of those hymns that reminds us. A good handful of promises from the scriptures.
It is overflowing with it saturated says colossians three that it must abound in
us. The word of Christ and hymns are a good way to help you
be meditating on the word of God every day at every moment. Simnologists do
not reach any consensus to be able to define who is the author of this
Hymn it seems that in a thousand seven hundred and eighty- seven, when
this hymn came to light in a hymn- selection hymn- selection hymns was
edited with the inscription K as author. It seems that in other later edited
hymns the letters KN were found. Some make guesses pointing to the possibility that
the author was R Kin, the music director of the Laine Baptist Church in
London, whose pastor Dr. John Rippon was in charge of including in his
selection before the death of the said pastor. Eleven editions were published in one
thousand eight hundred and thirty- six in England. Also in the United States.
The Baptist churches of Philadelphia made another edition in one thousand eight hundred twenty.
Irrelevant men like Theodor Russell, Andrew Jackson, Probert Lee and Woodrow Wilson,
had this hymn as their favorite, which has been said to sound like
a sermon. Put in verse, all these men asked that it be sung
either on their deathbed or at their funeral. In terms of music, it
also does not seem to know for certain who its author is. Who translated
the anthem into Spanish. He was Pastor Vicente Mendoza of the State of Puebla, Mexico,