When we walk with the Lord

When we walk with the Lord. John H. Sammis* (1846-1919).  This is frequently known by the repeated phrase in the refrain, ‘Trust and obey’. Its message is a simple one, and completely in accord with what is known of Sammis’s strict belief and teaching. This may have been the reason that Daniel B. Towner* sent the account to Sammis that was the origin of the hymn. At a testimony meeting conducted by Dwight L. Moody* at Brockton, Massachusetts, probably in 1886, a young man gave a brief but touching testimony: ‘I am not quite sure – but I am going to trust and I am going to obey’ (Sankey, 1906, p. 290). Towner, who was Moody’s song leader at the meeting, wrote down the words and sent them to...