Fresh Springs

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Fresh springs so holy

Author: Eliza E. Hewitt
Tune: [Fresh springs so holy]
Published in 3 hymnals

Audio files: MIDI

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1 Fresh springs so holy,
All needed power
Find we in Jesus,
New for each hour.
Fresh springs of mercy,
Blessing our days
With glist’ning joy-drops,
Bright rills of praise.

2 Fresh springs of comfort
In deserts dry,
Till springtime verdure
Gladdens the eye.
Wells of salvation,
Rivers of peace,
Pure, living waters,
Flow and increase.

3 Fresh springs in Jesus,
Source of all grace;
Where fruits are richest,
His life we trace.
Fresh springs in glory,
Filling the soul,
When waves of rapture
Endlessly roll.

Source: Joyful Sound: a collection of new hymns and music with familiar selections #59

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Author: Eliza E. Hewitt

Pseudonym: Lidie H. Edmunds. Eliza Edmunds Hewitt was born in Philadelphia 28 June 1851. She was educated in the public schools and after graduation from high school became a teacher. However, she developed a spinal malady which cut short her career and made her a shut-in for many years. During her convalescence, she studied English literature. She felt a need to be useful to her church and began writing poems for the primary department. she went on to teach Sunday school, take an active part in the Philadelphia Elementary Union and become Superintendent of the primary department of Calvin Presbyterian Church. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (… Go to person page >

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