The refrain provides the text's theme: trust and obey the Lord (Prov. Sankey crusades and its printing in Sankey hymnals, "When We Walk with the Lord" became widely known. The hymn was published in Hymns Old and New (1887). Los Angeles, CA, 1919) wrote the chorus lines first and then the five stanzas, after which Towner composed the tune. Sankey, The Story of the Gospel Hymns, 1906 He wrote the hymn, and the tune was born. One night a young man rose in a testimony meeting and said, "I am not quite sure-but I am going to trust, and I am going to obey." I just jotted that sentence down, and sent it with the little story to the Rev. Moody was conducting a series of meetings in Brockton, Massachusetts and I had the pleasure of singing for him there. Towner, composer of the tune, writes about the origins of this well-known gospel hymn:
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