Agreed, Joe. It's one of the songs that War Horse is founded on. We sat in the front row at a performance of War Horse - it was more like standing in the front line!

Dr. Horatius Bonar, of Edinburgh, wrote the words of this hymn, which I set to music in 1891. I sang it as a solo in the Tabernacle in London at the funeral of my friend, C. H. Spurgeon, the great London preacher. Sankey, pp. 334-5