<P> `` In the Garden '' ( sometimes rendered by its first line `` I Come to the Garden Alone '' is a gospel song written by American songwriter C. Austin Miles ( 1868 -- 1946 ) , a former pharmacist who served as editor and manager at Hall - Mack publishers for 37 years . According to Miles ' great - granddaughter , the song was written `` in a cold , dreary and leaky basement in Pitman , New Jersey that did n't even have a window in it let alone a view of a garden . '' The song was first published in 1912 and popularized during the Billy Sunday evangelistic campaigns of the early twentieth century by two members of his staff , Homer Rodeheaver and Virginia Asher . </P>
<P> `` In the Garden '' ( sometimes rendered by its first line `` I Come to the Garden Alone '' is a gospel song written by American songwriter C. Austin Miles ( 1868 -- 1946 ) , a former pharmacist who served as editor and manager at Hall - Mack publishers for 37 years . According to Miles ' great - granddaughter , the song was written `` in a cold , dreary and leaky basement in Pitman , New Jersey that did n't even have a window in it let alone a view of a garden . '' The song was first published in 1912 and popularized during the Billy Sunday evangelistic campaigns of the early twentieth century by two members of his staff , Homer Rodeheaver and Virginia Asher . </P>
when was the hymn in the garden written
when was the hymn in the garden written
1912
1912