Cleland Boyd McAfee (1866-1944) was a Presbyterian minister who wrote this beautiful hymn after the death of two young nieces caused by diphtheria. It has been published in at least 126 hymnals over the years. It’s special to me because it’s one of the two hymns played at my mother’s funeral in 1959. The other was Whispering Hope. I played fingerstyle using Pattern #10 in my fingerstyle ukulele tutorial (link below). This pattern is known as a “forward-reverse roll” on the 5-string banjo and goes well with many slower 4/4 songs. The only tricky part of using this roll is switching from C to Am in the chorus. Each of those chords is played for only a half measure so that you can play the first half of the pattern for C and then the second half of the pattern for Am, which is what I did on the 2nd and 3rd chorus. On the first one, I just played the 3rd string followed by a pinch for each chord. It’s up to you. You could even strum it there or eliminate the Am chord altogether and just stay on the C chord for the whole measure.

Here’s a link where you can find Pattern #10 on the fingerstyle tutorial:

Fingerstyle Ukulele Tutorial