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I heard this song for the first time at a cousin's wedding. I was very young then but I loved it. It had meaning to me even as a child and I had it it mind that I would have it sung on my wedding day.
I'm not yet married but the holy spirit has been drawing my attention to the hymn lately that I had to come here to copy the lyrics on my phone memo so that I can chant it from time to time although I almost know it offhand.
It's a reassurance of God's promises. He promised the Israelites in Isaiah 34:26 and He promises us today. Let us never stop believing in Him. I thank God for the lives of our fathers like El Nathan who were so deeply inspired by the Spirit. May our generation never fail to praise God and do His will.
Showers of blessings a beautiful hymn, brought me back to my early childhood days. The scenery with the waterfall just awesome! Blessings to all. With ❤️
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Showers of blessings. Showers of blessings we need. Mercy drops round us are falling, but for the showers we plead. Amen and Amen! 🙏
Daniel W. Whittle was born in Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts, on November 22, 1840. At the age of twenty-one he joined the 72nd Illinois Infantry enlisting in Company B as a Second Lieutenant. Later he rose to the rank of Major. He was with General Sherman on his march to the sea and was later wounded in the Battle of Vicksburg. After his return home he met the evangelist D. L. Moody. His relationship with Moody changed the course of Whittle’s life. After a brief time of working for the Elgin Watch Company, he was persuaded by Moody to enter to be a full time evangelist. He became known as one of the leading evangelists of his day.
Whittle was always assisted by a gospel singer and a song leader. His first associate was Phillip Bliss, whose tragic death at the Ashtabula, Ohio, train wreck in 1876 ended a close relationship.
James McGranahan followed Phillip Bliss as Whittle’s singing companion. More than 200 hymns hymn texts were set to music by McGranahan. Most of Whittle’s hymns had the pseudo name “El Nathan, ” Moody once said,
“I think Major Whittle has written some of the best hymns of this century. ” Together Whittle and McGranahan’s made several trips to Great Britain for evangelistic crusades and traveled around the United States until about 1890, when McGranahan’s health began to fail.
Major Daniel Whitfield died at Northfield, Massachusetts on March 4, 1901, at the age of sixty-one. He went to be with the Lord he served so faithfully.
James McGranahan was born on July 4, 1840 near Adamsville, Pennsylvania, he was of Scotch-Irish descent. At a young age he had already developed his tenor voice that so many enjoyed hearing. He was encouraged to enter into the operatic field and many believed that he would become a success. Phillip Bliss however encouraged him to devote his life to evangelist ministry. After hearing of Phillip Bliss’s tragic train accident, McGranahan went immediately to the site, looking to identify the body and to retrieve an item left behind from his friend in the train wreck. The body of Bliss, nor his wife’s nor anything belonging to them was found. Moving around the large crowd of spectators gathered at the site, McGranahan recognized Major Whittle, although they had never met before. Whittle had heard from Bliss about the talented James McGranahan and how he should be in Christian service. The Major immediately asked the musician to join him to replace Phillip Bliss. Before leaving the site of the accident together , they found the trunk undamaged, containing the text for “My Redeemer” which Bliss had been working on during the trip. McGranahan immediately began composing the music for this text; and at the next service in Chicago, he introduced the song which made a great spiritual impact upon the crowd. This began the evangelistic ministry between these two lovers of Christ.
After years of constant labor, McGranahan was forced to retire to private life due to his failing health. His last years were spent in composing hymns. He died on July 9, 1907, at the age of sixty-seven. His favorite verse was John 6:47 “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes has eternal life. ”