Abide With Me has to be among the world’s most moving hymns. Written by the Scottish Anglican Henry Francis Lyte in 1847, it draws its opening words from the Bible, Luke 24:29, “Abide with us ...

The iconic Abide With Me hymn, which has been performed at the FA Cup final for almost a century, will once again be blurted out by thousands of fans inside the national stadium – as well as the ...

Henry Lyte, who wrote Abide With Me, was born in Scotland in 1793, the son of a British Army officer. All his life the Anglican minister had poor health. In 1847, months before his death, he wrote ...