The Hymn That Wouldn't Let Him Go

George Matheson was a Scottish minister who had been losing his sight since childhood. The woman he had loved in his youth parted from him — unwilling, she said, to be bound to a man who would never see her face. By June 6, 1882, he had made a kind of peace with both losses. But that evening, the eve of his sister's wedding, the old grief returned without warning.…