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This flow behaviour is by design in MS Word if text boxes are used. The first citation after the text box seems to be number 1. It finally achieved widespread popularity when George Beverly Shea (famed singer and author of "I'd Rather Have Jesus") sung it at a Billy Graham crusade.When using a Text Box in Word, the numbering (sorting) of the EndNote citations suddenly changes before and after the text box section: J Edwin Orr (a reknowned Baptist minister who among other things penned the lyrics to "Search Me, O God") heard the hymn sung in India. And the fourth was written once he was home in England.Īgain, the hymn didn't achieve widespread attention until Dr. The third verse was written when he saw many of the Carpathian villagers and mountain people coming to accept Christ. The second verse was written near the Romanian border, when he heard birds singing. The first verse, he said, was writen when he was caught in a thunderstorm in a village. Hines explained how he arrivved at each of the four verses while living in the Carpathian mountains of Russia. The poem didn't get much attention at first, but over time it began to be sung in assocation with an old Swedish folk melody.Īn English missionary names Stuart Hine heard the poem being sung and arranged the words and the music to become the familiar ones we hear today. The hymn's story began In 1885 when Carl Boberg, a 26 year-old minister in Sweden wrote a poem called O Store Gud, translated in English to "O Mighty God". How Great Thou Art is a hymn that literally travelled the world before becoming the beloved hymn we sing today.

When through the woods, and forest glades I wander,Īnd hear the birds sing sweetly in the trees. Then sings my soul, my Saviour God, to Thee, Thy power throughout the universe displayed. I see the stars, I hear the rolling thunder, Consider all the worlds Thy Hands have made
