The Joy of My Soul

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I'm walking with Him who is guiding

Author: James Rowe
Tune: [I'm walking with Him who is guiding]
Published in 3 hymnals

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1 I’m walking with him who is guiding
To heaven, the glorified goal;
And sweetly in him I’m confiding,
For he is the joy of my soul!

Refrain:
Oh, he is the joy of my soul!
He keeps me so free and so whole;
I’ll stay at his side, whatsoever betide,
For he is the joy of my soul.

2 With Jesus I’m going to heaven,
I’m under his loving control;
To him all my heart I have given,
For he is the joy of my soul! [Refrain]

3 Some day I shall praise him in glory,
Where song waves forever shall roll,
And there I shall tell the glad story,
For he is the joy of my soul! [Refrain]

Source: Songs of Grace and Glory: A New and Inspiring Selection of Sacred Songs for Evangelical Use and General Worship #22

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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'm walking with Him who is guiding
Title:	The Joy of My Soul
Author:	James Rowe
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	O, He is the joy of my soul!
Copyright:	Public Domain