This hymn was written by Charles Wesley (1707-1788), brother of the famous Methodist evangelist John Wesley, over 250 years ago in 1742.
The words of this hymn powerfully convey the truth of Romans 8:34 which states: "Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us."
Ira Sankey records in his book, My Life and the Story of the Gospel Hymns, records the following account of the amazing power of the gospel as articulated in this song:
I have a record," said a Wesleyan missionary laboring in the West Indies, "of two hundred persons, young and old, who received the most direct evidence of the forgiveness of their sins while singing 'Arise, my soul.' The conversion of the greater number of these persons took place while I was a missionary abroad."
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