Stories Behind Classic Christian Hymns: "The morning light is breaking" - Samuel Francis Smith, 1808-1895

The hymn was first published in a hymnal that was under preparation that same year, Hastings Spiritual Songs. In 1843 tne author included it in a collection of hymns entitled The Psalmist, which he and Baron Stow prepared for American Baptists a hymnal that achieved wide popularity.
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