1 'Mid the toil and strife of this busy life,
Is it well with your soul?
Are you living right, should you die to-night?
Is it well with your soul?
Chorus:
Is it well with your soul,
Are you free, glad and whole?
Are you living right, should you die to-night?
Is it well with your soul?
2 Have you lost your sin, are you pure within?
Is it well with your soul?
Are you at the side of the crucified?
Is it well with your soul? [Chorus]
3 Do you praise the love of the One above?
Is it well with your soul?
Will the crown be won and the Lord's "well done?"
Is it well with your soul? [Chorus]
Source: The New Wonderful Songs for Work and Worship #137
Pseudonym: James S. Apple.
James Rowe was born in England in 1865. He served four years in the Government Survey Office, Dublin Ireland as a young man. He came to America in 1890 where he worked for ten years for the New York Central & Hudson R.R. Co., then served for twelve years as superintendent of the Mohawk and Hudson River Humane Society. He began writing songs and hymns about 1896 and was a prolific writer of gospel verse with more than 9,000 published hymns, poems, recitations, and other works.
Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916) Go to person page >
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