It Is Well with My Soul
| It Is Well With My Soul | |
|---|---|
| by Horatio Spafford | |
Horatio Spafford | |
| Genre | Hymn |
| Written | 1873 |
| Meter | 11.8.11.9 with refrain |
| Melody | "Ville du Havre" by Philip Bliss |
"It Is Well With My Soul", also known as "When Peace, Like A River", is a hymn penned by hymnist Horatio Spafford and composed by Philip Bliss. First published in Gospel Hymns No. 2 by Ira Sankey and Bliss (1876), it is possibly the most influential and enduring in the Bliss repertoire and is often taken as a choral model, appearing in hymnals of a wide variety of Christian fellowships.