At 20, his fiancĂ©e left him because he was going blind. At 40, alone on his sister’s wedding night, George Matheson wrote “O Love That Wilt Not Let Me Go” in just five minutes.
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The Story of Peace: “It Is Well With My Soul”
“Horatio Spafford stood on a ship crossing the Atlantic, sailing over the spot where his four daughters had drowned. There, he wrote ‘It Is Well With My Soul.'”