<Tr> <Th> Published </Th> <Td> 1869 (1869): Philadelphia </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Publisher </Th> <Td> Methodist Episcopal Book Room </Td> </Tr> <P> "I Love to Tell the Story" is a well - known hymn which was written as a poem by an English evangelist, Katherine Hankey . It was set to music by William G. Fischer . </P> <P> Hankey had a serious spell of sickness while in a mission in Africa . During her long days of convalescence, she wrote a long on the life of Jesus in 1866 in two parts . The first part was a poem of fifty stanzas, titled "The Story Wanted" (dated January 29, 1866) and second part titled "The Story Told" (dated November 18, 1866). </P>

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