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It Is Well with My Soul The Inspiring Story of Horatio Spafford, the Great Chicago Fire, and the Famous Hymn

The extraordinary true story behind one of the world’s best-loved hymns. This podcast is a reading of the novella It Is Well with My Soul: The Inspiring Story of Horatio Spafford, the Great Chicago Fire, and the Famous Hymn by the author D.P.K.Maegraith. Buy the book and learn about the film at https://itiswellwithmysoul.comIn 1873, Horatio Spafford was a successful Chicago businessman whose life was transformed by a series of devastating tragedies. He lost much of his wealth in the Great Chicago Fire. Then, while travelling across the Atlantic to join his family in Europe, disaster struck again: his four daughters died when the ship carrying them collided with another vessel.As Horatio sailed across the Atlantic over the place where his daughters had perished, he began to write the words that would become “It Is Well with My Soul” a hymn of extraordinary faith, comfort and hope. But the story does not end there.This podca

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    This chapter opens in Stavanger, Norway, in 1846. Four-year-old Anna Larsson learns her family is leaving their small fishing town for America. The voyage, the first sight of New York, and the long journey to Chicago follow. In the New World she loses her brother to cholera, then her mother, then her father, and becomes an orphan taken in by the church. She changes her name to Lawson, grows into a young woman of faith and resilience, and meets the older lawyer Horatio Spafford, who waits until she is eighteen before asking her to marry him.This episode read by the author D.P.K.Maegraith from the novella It Is Well with My Soul: The Inspiring Story of Horatio Spafford, the Great Chicago Fire, and the Famous Hymn. Buy the book, learn about the film at https://itiswellwithmysoul.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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The extraordinary true story behind one of the world’s best-loved hymns. This podcast is a reading of the novella It Is Well with My Soul: The Inspiring Story of Horatio Spafford, the Great Chicago Fire, and the Famous Hymn by the author D.P.K.Maegraith. Buy the book and learn about the film at https://itiswellwithmysoul.comIn 1873, Horatio Spafford was a successful Chicago businessman whose life was transformed by a series of devastating tragedies. He lost much of his wealth in the Great Chicago Fire. Then, while travelling across the Atlantic to join his family in Europe, disaster struck again: his four daughters died when the ship carrying them collided with another vessel.As Horatio sailed across the Atlantic over the place where his daughters had perished, he began to write the words that would become “It Is Well with My Soul” a hymn of extraordinary faith, comfort and hope. But the story does not end there.This podca

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