1 Don’t you know that Jesus knows all your care,
All your thorn-paths, all your woes, your despair?
Ev’ry time the tempter calls,
Ev’ry time the world enthralls,
All your troubles, all your woes,
Jesus knows.
Refrain:
He always knows, He always knows,
And sees the tear that silent flows,
The thorn that in your pathway grows,
The Saviour knows, He always knows.
2 Don’t you know that Jesus bends over you?
More than all your earthly friends He is true;
All the while you humbly plead
Jesus knows your ev’ry need,
Ev’ry sob and tears that flows,
Jesus knows. [Refrain]
3 Don’t you know He whispers still, “O come home?”
Won’t you, yielding to His will, cease to roam?
Heed His loving voice today,
Have your burden rolled away,
Sweet compassion still He shows,
For He knows. [Refrain]
Source: Jubilate : A Modern Sunday-School Hymnal #60
Pseudonym: James S. Apple.
James Rowe was born in England in 1865. He served four years in the Government Survey Office, Dublin Ireland as a young man. He came to America in 1890 where he worked for ten years for the New York Central & Hudson R.R. Co., then served for twelve years as superintendent of the Mohawk and Hudson River Humane Society. He began writing songs and hymns about 1896 and was a prolific writer of gospel verse with more than 9,000 published hymns, poems, recitations, and other works.
Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916) Go to person page >
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