Mary Ann Serrett Barber (1801-1864), of Huguenot ancestry, was an enthusiastic supporter of the Anglican Church. She contributed verse to the church magazine and also edited a children\’s magazine. In 1838 she sent a poem of four stanzas of eight lines each, entitled “He Is Our Peace,” of which the SDAH hymn is a modified selection. The full 32 lines were printed in the Church of England Magazine for March 3, 1858. Note that the word peace is mentioned five times in the three stanzas. 

TRYGGARE KAN INGEN VARA (see SDAH 101) is an old Swedish folk melody that could have had German origins. It is also said to be an old English folk song that was carried over to Sweden during the Pietistic revival of the latter half of the nineteenth century, when many English gospel songs made the same journey. The arrangement for SDAH was made by Melvin West (1930- ; see Biographies).