Excerpt from Studies of Familiar Hymns
When Dr. Ray Palmer, late in life, came to narrate the origin of his youthful hymn, "My Faith Looks Up to Thee," he explained that he would feel no little delicacy in so doing, "were it not that in one way and another it has happened that very inaccurate, and in some instances wholly apocryphal, things have been reported concerning it. It has furnished quite a striking illustration of the difficulty of transmitting verbally, with entire accuracy, a few simple facts, from one person to another." "Slight inaccuracies, rhetorical statements, and the imaginations of writers or speakers," he goes on to say, "have sometimes combined to form quite an unauthentic history of its origin."
Dr. Palmer"s chagrin over the literature setting forth the history of his own hymn appears to have been shared, measurably, by many readers of the popular literature setting forth the history of the hymns in which they themselves happen to be interested.
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