Joe Offer, how far are you from Fresno?

A professor named Larry Warkentin, D. M. A.,
(Fresno Pacific University)
published something related to this very hymn.
His comments include the following:

"a German-language hymn written in America by Wilhelm Horn in 1884"

"This hymn was a favorite of German-Russian Mennonites
arriving in America at the time."

Warkentin's blurb does not clarify
that Wilhelm Horn was a different denomination than Mennonite,
so it rather adds to the confusion.