
This hymn was composed by Robert Lowry in 1876. Lowry was a Baptist preacher who lived from 1826 until 1899. The first mention of it being sung was at an outdoor camp meeting in Ocean Grove, New Jersey, from whence it immediately spread across the United States.
My version is a little different from that which is typically sung in church. I accompany it on an 1840s-style fretless "minstrel" banjo copied by Terry Bell during the early 2000s from an original example by Baltimore luthier William E. Boucher, Jr. My tuning is ~ d♯BE♭F♯B (f♯DF♯AD) A=432 Hz.
1 John 1:7
"And if in the light we may walk, as He is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son doth cleanse us from every sin..."
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