Quoted from Horace Clarence Boyer, "Kenneth Morris: Composer and Dean of Black Gospel Music Publishers," in We'll Undestand It Better By and By: Pioneering African American Gospel Composers, edited by Bernice Johnson Reagon (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992, pp. 318-23):

In that same year [i.e., 1944], Morris produced the most popular of his compositions, "Yes, God Is Real". African American church congregations know this song so well that they need neither the score nor the text to sing it. It opens with a declaration of the inability of the mortal person to understand the universe and to survey all of its wonders:

There are some things I may not know,
There are some places I can't go

However, it quickly shifts to a statement of confidence proclaiming that which the person can understand and his or her joy in such knowledge:

But I am sure of this one thing
That God is real
For I can feel Him deep within.

According to Morris, "Yes, God Is Real" was his most commercially successful composition. It has been translated into twenty-four languages and is sung all over the world. Although "Just a Closer Walk" has been translated into eleven languages, "Yes, Gos Is Real" is the only song to reach this ststure.