Hymn Stories: Abide With Me
Abide with Me” is one of the best-loved English hymns of the past 150 years. We see this both in its enduring usage in churches today and in its ongoing appearances in modern culture (for example, in the opening ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics). What about the hymn has made it so well loved? The words, of course, have a lot to do with it. Each verse ends in the plea “abide with me,” making the hymn a sustained …