Now the story behind the tibunos, the story of the anthem. Gratus is to tell the pleasant story is to tell the story of Heavenly favor of Christ and of His glory, of Christ and of His love. I am pleased to refer to it, for I know it is the truth and nothing satisfies my anxiety as she does. How beautiful this story is. My theme in glory will be to exalt the story of Christ and his love. Katherine Hankee was born in one thousand eight hundred and thirty- four in a wealthy family.
His greatest joy was to see the poor and humble of Heart and Christ. From a very young age he studied Bible studies in the city of London. When he turned thirty, his health deteriorated considerably and he was told that he would have to reduce his time spent on Bible studies and rest for a year. He rested, but did not fall asleep. During this time he wrote an extensive poem about Christ. The second half of this poem, according
to Grato' s stanzas, is telling the story. Although Catherine had originally composed the music of this hymn, it was eventually William heff Fisher who composed the melody and added the chorus to publish this beautiful hymn, as we sing it today. In one thousand eight hundred and sixty- six, Katherine Hankie wrote a long poem about the life of Christ. It was composed of about fifty verses. The first half, which he wrote in January of that year,
was titled La Iss Desired. The second half, written in November, was titled Story told is interesting to see how God often changes man' s ways, and this poem is a good example. First, the size of this poem was something that would discourage any musician trying to play music and, second, it had two separate songs. Even so, God allowed two men who did not know each other to take four stanzas from each side and turn them into two evangelisms. It is also interesting to see that both hymns were
written in the same order as Miss Hankey. He wrote the poem In one thousand eight hundred and sixty- seven, while William Howard Donny was attending an international WYAM convention being held in Montreal, Canada, c s s s c u R A r N o n NS. Major Russell, a famous English general recite the first part of Miss Hanke' s poem, which he had
on a wrinkled sheet of paper. Tears ran down his tanned cheeks as he read it and soon there would be not a single dry eye in the whole meeting, as those who had attended captured a renewed image of God’ s amazing Love. When the meeting was over, Mr Donny got a copy of the poem and put it in his pocket. A few weeks later, on a hot summer day, Mr Donny was traveling in a carriage from Glence Fals, New York, to the white mountains, and on that journey he began
to read Miss Hankey' s poem. He soon began to remember the first time he had heard it in Canada and before the trip was over, he had written a music for him. That night at Crafhor House. The guests
gathered in the hotel hall and sang it for the first time. It was a year later, in nineteen hundred and sixty- eight, that William Heffisher, a well- known musician from Philadelphia, who in one thousand eight hundred and seventy- six would lead the chorus of Muody Sankie' s great gatherings in that city, wrote the music for four stanzas taken from the second part
of Miss Hankey' s poem of the two hymns. I am not mistaken to say that Grato, that is, history, is one of the most used and still one of the favorites of both young and old.