Sarah Fuller Flower Adams Nearer My God To Thee

This is the last song the band played on the stern of the Titanic as she sank.

Sarah fuller flower adams nearer my god to thee. Though like the wanderer The sun gone down Darkness be over me My rest a stone. Or if on joyful wing cleaving the sky Sun moon and stars forgot upward Ill fly Still all my song shall be nearer my God to Thee. Sarah Adams née Flower was born at Harlow Essex on 22 February 1805 and died in London on 14 August 1848.

Nearer my God to Thee is of particular historical significance as it is reputed to have been the final piece played by eight musicians on The RMS Titanic as it sank on 14 April 1912. 14 1848 and was buried at Harlow Aug. And by that name she is known as the author of Nearer my God to Thee Sarah Flower Adams In 1841 deeply impressed by the story in Genesis of Jacobs vision at Bethel of the ladder to heaven with angels ascending and descending thereon she wrote her hymn that has since become so.

She was the youngest of two with her older sister being the composer Eliza Flower. Sarah Flower Adams Biography. The song Nearer My God to Thee was written by Eliza Flower and Sarah Flower Adams and.

She also wrote 12 other hymns but none of them as well known. Still all my song shall be Nearer my God. Like Love O Love.

Sarah was born in 1805 to Unitarian parents. Her sister Eliza Flower set the lyrics to music. She worshiped in the Unitarian Church her whole life.

Adams Sarah nee Flower. Nearer my God to Thee Nearer to Thee. And was married in 1834 to William Brydges Adams a well-known inventor and civil engineer.