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One night, Peter Bilhorn, sang one of his most popular hymns, “I Will Sing the Wondrous Story.” A friend afterward jokingly said, “I wish you would write a song to suit my voice as well as that song suits yours!” Bilhorn asked him what it would be. The fellow relied, “Oh, any sweet piece.” Peter Bilhorn wrote the music for this hymn that very evening.
The next winter, while travelling by train, he was at a train accident. He saw one person left in a pool of blood, and it reminded him of the atoning shed blood of Christ. So while on the train, he wrote the words of this hymn. The hymn has become a popular note of appreciation for the Savior’s work.
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Sources
Paul Eckert, Steve Green's MIDI Hymnal: A Complete Toolkit for Personal Devotions and Corporate Worship., Electronic ed. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 1998).
Kenneth W. Osbeck, Amazing Grace: 366 Inspiring Hymn Stories for Daily Devotions (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Kregel Publications, 1990), p. 206.
