This hymn came to Eliza Edmunds Hewitt as she studied John 14, "Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you."
Eliza Edmunds Hewitt was one of the premier women hymn writers of the late 1800s and early 1900s.