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When Peace Like a River


Scroll below to read the gripping story, Saved Alone, while meditating on this beautiful hymn.

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  • Holy communion is observed the 1st, 3rd and 5th weekends each month.

  • Lenten Services on February 24 and March 3, 10, 17 and 24 at 11 am & 6:30 pm. Lunch following 11 am service. Soup supper starting at 5 pm.

  • Palm Sunday on March 28 at 8 am & 10:30 am.

  • Maundy Thursday with communion on April 1 at 7 pm.

  • Good Friday Tenebrae Cantata with Orchestra on April 2 at 7 pm.

  • Easter Sunday with communion on April 4 at 6:30 am (sunrise traditional), 8:30 am (traditional) and 10:30 am (blended music). Easter breakfast begins at 7:30 am.

  • Christian education is offered at 9:15 am on Sundays--and during selected times of the week.

  • Nursery care is offered on Sunday mornings for worship and Bible study hour during the school year.

  • The entire building is handicap accessible.
  • When Peace Like A River

    Lutheran Service Book #763

    Also known as, It Is Well With My Soul, this influential hymn was penned by Horatio Spafford in 1873 and set to music by Phillip Bliss. The hymn was written after several traumatic events in Spafford's life.

    The first was the death of his only son in 1871. Shortly after, the Great Chicago Fire ruined him financially.

    Then in 1873, he had planned to travel to Europe with his family on the S.S Ville du Havre, but sent the family ahead while he was delayed on business concerning zoning problems following the Great Chicago Fire.

    While crossing the Atlantic, the ship sank rapidly after a collision with a sailing ship, the Lockhearn. All four of Spafford's daughters died. His wife Anna survived and sent him the now famous telegram, "Saved alone."

    Shortly afterwards, as Spafford traveled to meet his grieving wife, he was inspired to write these words as his ship passed near where his daughters had died.

    Bliss called his tune Ville du Harve, from the name of the stricken vessel.

    Spafford was born on October 20, 1828 in North Troy, New York. He was a successful lawyer in Chicago who maintained a keen interest in Christian activities, deeply spiritual and devoted to the scriptures.

    Horatio's faith in God never faltered. He later wrote Anna's half-sister, "On Thursday last we passed over the spot where she went down, in mid-ocean, the waters three miles deep. But I do not think of our dear ones there. They are safe, folded, the dear lambs."

    After Anna was rescued, Pastor Nathaniel Weiss, one of the ministers traveling with Anna remembered hearing Anna say, "God gave me four daughters. Now they have been taken from me. Someday I will understand why." Anna was utterly devastated.

    Many of the survivors watched Anna closely, fearing she may try to take her life. In her grief and despair, Anna heard a soft voice speaking to her, "You were saved for a purpose!" It was then Anna remembered something a friend had once said, "It's easy to be grateful and good when you have so much, but take care that you are not a fair-weather friend to God."

    The scripture reference is Psalm 46:1 "God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble."