These words, Mr. Bliss has told me, were sug­gest­ed to him in read­ing the book “Gates Ajar” and cri­ti­cisms upon it. His idea was that what we may know from the Scrip­ture, that we shall be with the Lord, is suf­fi­cient, and that we may be hap­pi­ly con­tent in say­ing of all that is mere spe­cu­la­tion, “I know not,” off­set­ting it by what we are per­mit­ted to say “I know.” The mu­sic for the words was com­posed by his friend, James Mc­Gran­a­han, while vi­sit­ing Mr. Bliss. Both Mr. & Bliss loved the song ve­ry much and oft­en sang it to­ge­ther, and have both told me of how the tune came to Mr. Mc­Gran­a­han. Mr. Bliss had hand­ed him the words and asked him to see what he could get for a tune. He worked upon it a long time, mak­ing har­mo­nies and try­ing to sa­tis­fy him­self with some­thing that would prop­er­ly ex­press the words, but with­out suc­cess. When sup­per time came he did not care for sup­per, and when bed time came they all went to their rooms leav­ing him in the par­lor at the pi­a­no. He worked away for some time, but, dis­sa­tis­fied with the re­sult, lay down up­on the floor and fell into a doze. Af­ter a lit­tle while he woke up, and the tune, chor­us and all had come—dif­fer­ent from the har­mo­nies he had worked up­on, but just the thing. In the morn­ing he sang it to Bliss, who was de­light­ed with it and im­me­di­ate­ly adopt­ed it for use.