“HOW GREAT THOU ART”
by Andy Hollier
Truly this is one of my favorite songs. The song was originally written by Carl Boberg in 1885. Boberg composed the hymn simply as a poem. Several years later he heard his poem put to the melody of a Swedish folk song.
It all began after Boberg was walking home from worship services, he had seen a thunderstorm on the horizon with lightning in the sky and strong winds in the meadows, and then the rain. After the storm there was a rainbow. Arriving at home he opened his window and saw the Bay of Monsteras nearby and in the woods he heard the singing of birds. These observations prompted him that evening to write the first two verses of the poem that would become this hymn. When it was first sung in public it contained 8 verses, with a ninth verse added in 1891. The version found in most song books was published in 1949 by Stuart K Hine, who was a British Methodist missionary. According to Manna Music Inc, there have been more than 1700 documented recordings of this hymn, second only to Amazing Grace.
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We praise God for our dear friend, Pastor Andrew Hollier, in Australia. He has given us permission to use his trifold Bible Studies on key topics. We have them now on our webpage. www.prisonmission.org/free-bible-lessons/ scroll down and to the right side of the lesson webpage. We have over sixty of them. We will post one for our blog every week over the rest of this year! So, check our website each week to get the newest Bible Studies!