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Trust and Obey
Trust and Obey
The music for this song was composed by D. B. Towner, the first director of music at Moody Bible Institute
in Chicago.
The inspiration for the hymns writing came in 1886 during and occasion when Towner was
leading singing for D. L. Moody in Brockton, Massachusetts. In a testimony service, he heard a young man
say, I am not quite sure but I am going to trust, and I am going to obey.
Towner jotted down the words and sent them to his friend J. H. Sammis, a Presbyterian minister,
who developed the idea into a full hymn.
The refrain came first it is a capsule version of the entire song and the verse later.
D. L. Moody said in one occasion: The blood (of Christ) alone makes us safe. The Word (of
God) alone makes us sure. Obedience (to God) makes us happy.
Cliff Barrows
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