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This is my second arrangment of this beautiful hymn. My mother, a ward choir director, asked for an arrangement for her choir and this is it. It is accessible for an SATB ward choir and an intermediate pianist. The sopranos split in the last verse, allowing those who aren't comfortable with the high notes to have a lower line.
This arrangement has allusions to the theme we know as 'be still my soul' (originally Finlandia, by Jean Sibelius.) I love the way the messages of each of those hymns work together. We can 'be still' and know that 'it is well' as we remember the Savior and look forward to the time we will see Him again.
~Rachel
Voicing: SATB
Accompaniment: Piano
Topics: Atonement of Jesus Christ, comfort, faith, Jesus Christ, peace, repentance, Second Coming, trials
Lyrics: Horatio G Spafford, 1876
Music: Philip P. Bliss, 1876
Be Still My Soul lyrics by Katharina von Schlegel, b 1697, trans. by Jane Borthwick, 1813-1897
Arrangement: Rachel Pettit Mohlman
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LYRICS
When peace, like a river, attendeth my way,
When sorrows like sea billows roll—
Whatever my lot, Thou hast taught me to say,
“It is well, it is well with my soul.”
Though Satan should buffet, though trials should come,
Let this blest assurance control:
That Christ hath regarded my helpless estate
And hath shed His own blood for my soul.
It is well with my soul;
It is well, it is well with my soul.
Be still my soul.
It is well.
My sin—oh, the bliss of this glorious thought!—
My sin, not in part but the whole,
Is nailed to the cross, and I bear it no more.
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul.
O Lord, haste the day when my faith shall be sight,
The heav’ns be rolled back like a scroll.
The trump shall resound, and the Lord shall descend;
Even so, it is well with my soul.
It is well with my soul;
It is well, it is well with my soul.
Be still my soul.
It is well.
Be still my soul.
It is well.
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