O Love That Will Not Let Me Go
- "O, Love That Will Not Let Me Go" in The Canadian Soldiers' Song Book (1918).
- "O Love That Will Not Let Me Go" in The Army and Navy Hymnal (ed.) by Henry Augustine Smith (1920).
"Dr. Matheson says this hymn was 'written in the Manse of my former parish (Innellan, Argyleshire) one summer evening in 1882. It was composed with extreme rapidity; it seemed to me that its construction occupied only a few minutes, and I felt myself rather in the position of one who was being dictated to than of an original artist I was suffering from extreme mental distress, and the hymn was the fruit of pain.' [L. MSS.] This hymn first appeared in the Church of Scotland magazine, Life and Work, in 1883. From thence it passed into the Scottish Hymnal 1884; and there set to special music by Dr. A. L. Peace. It is a beautiful and tender hymn and worthy of extensive use." —"O Love that wilt not let me go," in A Dictionary of Hymnology, (ed.) by John Julian (1892).