[1][2] He read it to his relative immediately after writing it, to his children at tea time that day,[2] and soon published it along with four other hymns he had written in a tract called Songs in the House of Pilgrimage.
[4] George Thomas Caldbeck (1852–1918) later wrote the tune, which is usually called Pax Tecum.
[5] Caldbeck's tune was substantially altered by a hymnal editor, Charles Vincent.
[2] Each short stanza begins one line asking a simple question about whether peace is possible under a difficult circumstance.
It is enough: earth's struggles soon shall cease, and Jesus call to heaven's perfect peace.