Nearer, My God, to Thee



"My gentle readers, it's been a privilege of letting me know about that unfamiliar song today or tonight like what Wallace Hartley said in the 1997 film called Titanic, the one that I watched before the war even began. You know, I remember hearing Nearer, My God, To Thee when I was seeing the ship sinking. That was the alleged last song that the band did play... and he did that once before he would be perished along with his fellow band members. Now CNN did play that for sure because the Last Day's comin'."

--Su Ji-Hoon, War Never Changes

"Nearer, My God, to Thee" is a 19th-century Christian hymn by Sarah Flower Adams, which retells the story of Jacob's dream. Genesis28:11–12 can be translated as follows: "So he came to a certain place and stayed there all night, because the sun had set. And he took one of the stones of that place and put it at his head, and he lay down in that place to sleep. Then he dreamed, and behold, a ladder was set up on the earth, and its top reached to heaven; and there the angels of God were ascending and descending on it..."

The hymn is well known, among other uses, as the alleged last song the band on RMS Titanic played before the ship sank.

In When the Cold Breeze Blows Away, it will be played by CNN when they're broadcasting about the Last Day