Horatio G. Spafford could well be described as a latter-day Job. Born on October 20, 1828 in Lansingburgh, New York, Horatio had it all by the late 1860s. A Presbyterian Church elder and devout ...

The hymn, “It is Well with My Soul,” was written by Horatio Spafford in 1873 after his children died at sea. This background helps us to understand his words, “when sorrows like sea billows roll.” In ...

Anna Øglende Spafford’s life was a classic 19th-century epic, related perceptively by Geniesse. Born in Norway in 1842, she came to the United States as a child, buried her father on the Minnesota ...