Within approximately 12 minutes, the Ville du Harve slipped beneath the dark waters of the Atlantic, carrying with it 226 of the passengers including the four Spafford children.Ī sailor, rowing a small boat over the spot where the ship went down, spotted a woman floating on a piece of the wreckage. She knelt there with Annie, Margaret Lee, Bessie and Tanetta and prayed that God would spare them if that could be His will, or to make them willing to endure whatever awaited them. Anna hurriedly brought her four children to the deck. Suddenly, all of those on board were in grave danger. His plan was to take another ship.Ībout four days into the crossing of the Atlantic, the Ville du Harve collided with a powerful, iron-hulled Scottish ship, the Loch Earn. He told his wife he would join her and their children in Europe a few days later. Spafford had planned to go with his family, he found it necessary to stay in Chicago to help solve an unexpected business problem. 21, 1873, the French ocean liner, Ville du Havre was crossing the Atlantic from the U.S. Yet, God in His mercy and kindness allowed the business to flourish once more.
Their young son died with pneumonia in 1871, and in that same year, much of their business was lost in the great Chicago fire.
However, they were not strangers to tears and tragedy. Spafford was a successful lawyer and businessman in Chicago with a lovely family - a wife, Anna, and five children.
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