Joseph M. Scriven wrote this hymn in 1855 for his dying mother. No stranger to sorrow, Scriven had had fiancées die shortly before the wedding on two separate occasions and was largely abandoned by his friends while working with the poor and sickly in an attempt to live according to the Sermon on the Mount. This hymn reminds us of God's grace and love for us even when no one else is there.
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