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This Same Jesus
'This same Jesus!' Oh! how sweetly
Fall those words upon the ear,
Like a swell of far off music,
In a nightwatch still and drear!
He who healed the hopeless leper,
He who dried the widow's tear;
He who changed to health and gladness
Helpless suffering, trembling fear;
He who wandered, poor and homeless,
By the stormy Galilee;
He who on the night-robed mountain
Bent in prayer the wearied knee;
He who spake as none had spoken,
Angel-wisdom far above,
All-forgiving, ne'er upbraiding,
Full of tenderness and love;
He who gently called the weary,
'Come and I will give you rest!'
He who loved the little children,
Took them in His arms and blest;
He, the lonely Man of Sorrows,
'Neath our sin-cursed bending low;
By His faithless friends forsaken
In the darkest hours of woe;--
'This same Jesus!' When the vision
Of that last and awful day
Bursts upon the prostrate spirit,
Like a midnight lightning ray;
When, else dimly apprehended,
All its terrors seem revealed.
Trumpet-knell and fiery heavens,
And the books of doom unsealed;
Then, we lift our hearts adoring
'This same Jesus,' loved and known,
Him, our own most gracious Saviour,
Seated on the great white Throne;
He Himself, and 'not another,'
He for whom our heart-love yearned
Through long years of twilight waiting,
To His ransomed ones returned!
For this word, O Lord, we bless Thee,
Bless our Master's changeless name;
Yesterday, to-day, for ever,
Jesus Christ is still the Same.
by Frances Ridley Havergal
Act 1:11 Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.
"Frances Ridley Havergal, was the writer of this and of many other exquisitely beautiful poems and hymns. I think hardly any can read the marvelously interesting story of her life, written by her sister, without feeling how far they themselves fall short of what a Christian can and ought to be. The possibilities of a life wholly yielded to Jesus Christ are great indeed. I pray that we may all be stirred, as we shall hear today of her close following of her King and Saviour, to imitate her life and follow her faith."
Frances Ridley Havergal English poet and hymn writer - Christian Biography Resources
'This same Jesus!' Oh! how sweetly
Fall those words upon the ear,
Like a swell of far off music,
In a nightwatch still and drear!
He who healed the hopeless leper,
He who dried the widow's tear;
He who changed to health and gladness
Helpless suffering, trembling fear;
He who wandered, poor and homeless,
By the stormy Galilee;
He who on the night-robed mountain
Bent in prayer the wearied knee;
He who spake as none had spoken,
Angel-wisdom far above,
All-forgiving, ne'er upbraiding,
Full of tenderness and love;
He who gently called the weary,
'Come and I will give you rest!'
He who loved the little children,
Took them in His arms and blest;
He, the lonely Man of Sorrows,
'Neath our sin-cursed bending low;
By His faithless friends forsaken
In the darkest hours of woe;--
'This same Jesus!' When the vision
Of that last and awful day
Bursts upon the prostrate spirit,
Like a midnight lightning ray;
When, else dimly apprehended,
All its terrors seem revealed.
Trumpet-knell and fiery heavens,
And the books of doom unsealed;
Then, we lift our hearts adoring
'This same Jesus,' loved and known,
Him, our own most gracious Saviour,
Seated on the great white Throne;
He Himself, and 'not another,'
He for whom our heart-love yearned
Through long years of twilight waiting,
To His ransomed ones returned!
For this word, O Lord, we bless Thee,
Bless our Master's changeless name;
Yesterday, to-day, for ever,
Jesus Christ is still the Same.
by Frances Ridley Havergal
Act 1:11 Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.
"Frances Ridley Havergal, was the writer of this and of many other exquisitely beautiful poems and hymns. I think hardly any can read the marvelously interesting story of her life, written by her sister, without feeling how far they themselves fall short of what a Christian can and ought to be. The possibilities of a life wholly yielded to Jesus Christ are great indeed. I pray that we may all be stirred, as we shall hear today of her close following of her King and Saviour, to imitate her life and follow her faith."
Frances Ridley Havergal English poet and hymn writer - Christian Biography Resources
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