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You do great and marvelous deeds: You alone are God.

O Lord, my God, when I in awesome wonder consider all the works Thy hands have made, I see the stars, I hear the rolling thunder, Thy pow’r thro’out the universe displayed.

When thro’ the woods and forest glades I wander and hear the birds sing sweetly in the trees, when I look down from lofty mountain grandeur, and hear the brook and feel the gentle breeze;

And when I think that God, His Son not sparing, sent Him to die, I scarce can take it in; that on the cross my burden gladly bearing, He bled and died to take away my sin.

When Christ shall come with shout of acclamation and take me home what joy shall fill my heart! Then I shall bow in humble adoration and there proclaim: my God, how great Thou art!

CHORUS

 Then sings my soul, my Savior God, to Thee; how great Thou art! How great Thou art! Then sings my soul, my Savior God, to Thee; how great Thou art! How great Thou art!

Stuart Wesley Keen Hine was born on July 25, 1899, in Derbyshire, England, to Edward and Florence Hine. Stuart had a younger sister and brother. At the age of 14, Stuart began to learn about God and wanted to live a life worthy of God. He asked for forgiveness and became a Christian, and shortly there- after he was baptized. Four years later, he was drafted and deployed to France. Even though he faced many struggles and dangers, he still found time read his Bible and pray. In 1919, 2 years after being in France, he returned home to England. He began working for the Mitsubishi family. On June 20, 1923, Stuart married Mercy Salmon. A month later, he was deployed to Europe: Poland, Russia, Bukovina, Ukraine, and the Carpathian Mountain region. They lived in Eastern Europe for 16 years. In 1930, Mercy became pregnant and had a daughter Sonya. He began speaking, to anyone who would listen, about God, God’s love, and invited them to his house. One day, he met a Russian minister who had been imprisoned, and badly injured for his faith. Stuart befriended him and the two became very close. One day, while Stuart was patrolling his area, he noticed that everything seemed to be worshipping God.  He wrote the first verse as he was gazing into the sky and heard the thunder of a nearby storm. The second verse was written in Russia and Bukovina as he listened to the birds of the air chirp in their high trees. The third verse was written because of several different conversations with people who lived in the Carpathian Mountain region. At the end of WW2, when some of the Polish were exiled from their homes, some of them followed their friend Stuart and his family back to England where he and his family helped them settle. He thought of how the Polish people must long to go back to their native land and was inspired to write the fourth verse. On March 14, 1989, he died at the age of 89, in Essex.