 He laid the song aside and nearly forgot that he had written it. But some weeks later, he remembered Lowell Mason's request and sent it off to him. I certainly was surprised when I heard that my hymn was sung at that year's Fourth of July Children's Celebration at Park Street Church in Boston. For the sake of time, we must move ahead now more than 60 years to April 1895, when 5,000 people gathered in Boston's Music Hall.