Rev. Charles Albert Tindley's hymn of spiritual endurance, published in the collection Soul Echoes. Carrying biblical supplication and melodic bones inherited from spirituals, it was sung in the call-and-response tradition of the Black church.
In 1961 Ben E. King, with Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, rebuilt it as a secular soul ballad. Divine plea became universal human solidarity — anchored by an iconic circular bass riff and string arrangement — reaching No. 4 on the Hot 100 and No. 1 on the R&B chart.