of biscuits we shall have." It has also been recorded by Guy Penrod when he was a member of the Gaither Vocal Band, a Southern Gospel Group led by Bill Gaither. The song was featured in at least one Gaither Homecoming Video Title: The Hawaiian Homecoming. It is possible that it was recorded in more videos than that. Authorship It is clear that "Palms of Victory" had to be written by someone in particular, rather than having been the development of a community of folk singers, because it is a sophisticated song with complex verses that tell a consistent story. Jackson notes that spiritual folk songs arising from a community feature a "progressive simplification of the text." The song is clearly based on the story of John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, a book that was widely read in the 19th Century, and that had a profound influence on the Christian world-view among all denominations. If "Palms of Victory" was written in 1836, John B. Matthias was at that time serving congregations at Huntington South and Islip, New York, a rural circuit that might have welcomed this song. Perhaps John B. Matthias wrote and sang it to his congregations and someone else copied it down and scored it. Perhaps John B. Matthias was well known for singing the anonymous religious ballad or folk hymn (to use George Pullen Jackson's categories), and so received credit for writing it. One might think that there has been a confusion between John B. Matthias and his son, John J. Matthias (d. 1861). In 1836, John J. Matthias, the son, was serving a "city church", Nazareth Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia. One wonders if the homespun melody and message of "Palms of Victory" would have been appropriate for such a congregation. In 1886, the Rev. William McDonald published Songs of Joy and Gladness, which included "Deliverance Will Come" as hymn #214. Then, in 1909 the song was included in New Songs of the Gospel, hymn #267, and that publication claimed that they had received permission from McDonald, and some other song books have credited McDonald with authorship. However, it is clear that McDonald did not write the song, because it had been published prior to his book. Ten years before New Songs of the Gospel the song had been published in an independent gospel song book and seven years earlier the song had been published in a