 Dwight L. Moody encouraged Philip to become a music evangelist, and he did, beginning in 1874. The hymn that we're about to feature was published in 1875. The next year, in 1876, while traveling through Ohio on the way to Moody's Tabernacle in Chicago, he and his family would unfortunately be involved in a train wreck. When Philip went back into the fiery train to try to rescue his wife, both he and his wife perished.