14/07/2025
Abide with Me is a hymn that deals with comfort and help. It was written by a Scotsman named Henry Francis Lyte. During the last years of his life, Lyte suffered from tuberculosis, the disease that would eventually take his life. A few weeks before his death, he announced that he wanted to preach his last sermon at Brixham. His family was surprised and almost alarmed by him announcing his intention to preach once more to his people. Given his weakness and the possible danger of attempting the effort, he was urged not to do it – but in vain. “It was better to wear out than to rust out” which he often said. He felt that he should be enabled to fulfil his wish, and feared not for the result. His expectation was well founded. He did preach, and amid the breathless attention of his hearers, gave them his final message. It is said that he was so weak that he crawled on his hands and knees to the pulpit and leaned on the pulpit to preach his final sermon to his people. He rested that afternoon in his study, and emerged with his poem, “Abide with Me,” in his hand.
Get free Abide with Me sheet music by William H. Monk as a digital notation file for piano/keyboard in NULL Translation missing: en.modes.null (transposable).
