I Stand All Amazed - Video and Lyrics

“I Stand All Amazed” is a hymn of praise and wonder that acknowledges gratitude for the Savior’s Atonement. Charles H. Gabriel, who composed between 7,000 and 8,000 songs, wrote “I Stand All Amazed” in 1898. Born in Wilton, Iowa, in 1856 and raised on a farm, he taught himself to play his family’s reed organ and never had any formal music training.

During his life he edited 35 gospel song books, 8 Sunday school song books, 10 children’s song books, and countless other music collections including anthems, cantatas, and instructional books.

The August 1986 issue of the Ensign magazine published an address given by Elder Jeffrey R. Holland, then president of Brigham Young University. In this address, titled “I Stand All Amazed,” he said:

“One of our favorite hymns begins, ‘I stand all amazed.’ (Hymns, 1985, no. 193.) In any consideration of Christ’s life, surely there is reason to be amazed in every way. We are amazed at his premortal role as the great Jehovah, agent of his Father, creator of the earth, guardian of the entire family of man. We are amazed at his coming to earth and the circumstances surrounding his advent, following millennia of revelatory leadership to Adam and Abraham and Moses and Lehi and all the prophets of old. We are amazed by his good and humble stepfather and by the young virgin who was his earthly mother. We are amazed at the miracle of his conception.”