“We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.” – Isaiah 53:6

“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.” – George  Bernard Shaw

I am reading here that Edgar Allan Poe was one of the great writers of the past. And here are his famous reported last words:

“Lord, help my poor soul.”

Compare those last words with the chorus of the hymn “When peace like a river attends all my way,…” by Horatio G. Spafford:

“It is well (It is well), with my soul (with my soul),

It is well, it is well with my soul!”

He lived from 1828 – 1888.

The music for the hymns “When peace like a river…” is by Philip P. Bliss who lived from 1838-1876