When the Hand of Love Touched Me

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I could feel the burden roll from my weary, sinful soul

Author: James Rowe
Tune: [I could feel the burden roll from my weary sinful soul] (Morris)
Published in 7 hymnals

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1 I could feel the burden roll from my weary, sinful soul,
When the hand of love touched me;
And my heart that had been sad found a song that made it glad,
When the hand of love touched me.

Chorus:
When the hand of love touched me, (touched me,)
When the hand of love touched me, (touched me,)
I could feel the burden roll from my weary, sinful soul,
When the hand of love touched me.

2 I was lost in darkest night, but my soul beheld the light,
When the hand of love touched me;
Great despair had filled my heart, but how soon it did depart,
When the hand of love touched me. [Chorus]

3 When I heard His welcome voice, how it made my heart rejoice,
When the hand of love touched me;
When thro' grace He made me whole how His glory filled my soul,
When the hand of love touched me. [Chorus]

Source: The New Praiseworthy: for the Church and Sunday School #65

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Author: James Rowe

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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First Line:	I could feel the burden roll from my weary, sinful soul
Title:	When the Hand of Love Touched Me
Author:	James Rowe
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	When the hand of love touched me
Copyright:	Public Domain