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Jesus, my Saviour and my Lord
Appears in 39 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Jesus, my Saviour and my Lord,
To thee I lift mine eyes;
Teach and instruct me by thy word,
And make me truly wise.
2 Make me to know and understand
Thy whole revealed will;
Fain would I learn to comprehend
Thy love more clearly still.
3 Help me to read the Bible o'er
With ever new delight;
Help me to love its Author more;
To seek thee day and night.
4 Oh, let it purify my heart,
And guide me all my days;
Its wonders, Lord, to me impart,
And thou shalt have the praise. Used With Tune: BALERMA
Jesus, my Saviour and my Lord
Jesus, my Savior and my Lord, To thee I lift
Author: Susanna Harrison Hymnal: A Manual of Devotion and Hymns for the House of Refuge, City of New York #20 (1869) Languages: English
Jesus, my Savior and my Lord, To thee I lift
Jesus, my Savior and my Lord, To thee I lift
Author: Susanna Harrison Hymnal: Hymns selected from various authors #31 (1850) Languages: English
Jesus, my Savior and my Lord, To thee I lift
Jesus, my Savior and my Lord, To thee I lift
Author: Susanna Harrison Hymnal: Millennial Musings #d56 (1841) Languages: English
Jesus, my Savior and my Lord, To thee I lift
Susannah Harrison
1752 - 1784 Person Name: Susanna Harrison Author of "Prepare Our Hearts" Harrison, Susanna, invalided from her work as a domestic servant at the age of 20, published Songs in the Night, 1780. This included 133 hymns, and passed through ten editions. She is known by "Begone, my worldly cares, away," and "O happy souls that love the Lord." Born in 1752 and died Aug. 3, 1784.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
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Harrison, Susanna. (1752--August 3, 1784, Ipswich, England). The preface to the first edition of her collected hymns, Songs in the night, 1780, states that she was "a very obscure young woman, and quite destitute of the advantages of education, as well as under great bodily affliction. Her father dying when she was young, and leaving a large family unprovided for, she went out to service at sixteen years of age."
In August 1722, she became ill, probably with tuberculosis, and returned to her mother's home. She taught herself to write and in her remaining years she wrote 142 hymns which, with a few meditations, were published as Songs in the night by an anonymous editor, perhaps her rector. So sincere yet vivid is the expression of her faith as she faced certain death that by 1847 there had been eleven editions printed in England and seven additional ones in America.
Individual hymns remained popular in America during much of the nineteenth century due to the constant preoccupation with death in both urban and frontier life, reflected in the large sections of funeral hymns in most hymnals.
--Leonard Ellinwood, DNAH Archives
Susannah Harrison
