"Once to Every Man and Nation" is a hymn based upon the poem " The Present Crisis" by James Russell Lowell. [1] [2] [3]
The original poem was written as a protest against the Mexican–American War. [4]
The hymn was written to the tune of Ebenezer (hymn) by Thomas J. Williams in 1890, [4] though it has sometimes been published with a different tune (for instance, the 1956 Baptist Hymnal sets it to " Austrian Hymn" [5]).
"Once to Every Man and Nation" is a hymn based upon the poem " The Present Crisis" by James Russell Lowell. [1] [2] [3]
The original poem was written as a protest against the Mexican–American War. [4]
The hymn was written to the tune of Ebenezer (hymn) by Thomas J. Williams in 1890, [4] though it has sometimes been published with a different tune (for instance, the 1956 Baptist Hymnal sets it to " Austrian Hymn" [5]).