I love to tell the story

I love to tell the story. Arabella Catherine Hankey* (1834-1911). It is widely believed that this hymn ’ is from the second part of the author’s poem, ‘The Old, Old Story’, but that is not correct. It was written later, as a separate poem, ‘complete in itself’, as a ‘postscript’ to the author’s earlier two-part poem. It appeared in Sunday at Home: a family magazine for Sabbath reading (1869), with the following note by the author:   Few of our readers but must be familiar with ‘The Old Old Story,’ the simple strains of which have touched and gladdened many a heart. We need not quote any verses of a poem which has been circulated by hundreds of thousands. The author has sent the...