Why should I sorrow more

Author: C. H. Spurgeon

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon, the world-famous preacher, was born June 19, 1834, at Kelvedon, in Essex, where his father was Congregational minister. He was educated at Colchester, and at an Agricultural College at Maidstone, after which he was for a few years usher in schools at Newmarket and Cambridge. In 1851 he became minister of a small Baptist church at Waterbeach, near Cambridge, and soon attained great popularity. In 1854 he removed to New Park Street, London, the place where Drs. Gill and Rippon had formerly ministered, and ere long the thronging of people to hear him led, first, to the temporary occupation of Exeter Hall, and of the Surrey Music Hall, and then to the erection of the great Metropolitan Tabernacle, where he still minist… Go to person page >

Why should I sorrow more? [Confidence in the Promises.] This hymn in Spurgeon's Our Own Hymn Book, 1866, is W. Williams's hymn "My God, my Life, my All," rewritten for that collection by Mr. Spurgeon. Williams's original appeared in his Gloria in Excelsis, or Hymns of Praise to God and the Lamb, Carmarthen, 1772, No. 67, in 4 stanzas of 8 lines.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)