Thanks for being a Hymnary.org user. You are one of more than 10 million people from 200-plus countries around the world who have benefitted from the Hymnary website in 2024! If you feel moved to support our work today with a gift of any amount and a word of encouragement, we would be grateful.

You can donate online at our secure giving site.

Or, if you'd like to make a gift by check, please make it out to CCEL and mail it to:
Christian Classics Ethereal Library, 3201 Burton Street SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49546
And may the promise of Advent be yours this day and always.

Click here to donate to Hymnary.org I have already donated. Please don't show this to me again

Jesus, Engrave it

Representative Text

1 Jesus! engrave it on my heart,
That Thou the One thing needful art:
I could from all things parted be,
But never, never, Lord, for Thee!

2 Needful is Thy most precious blood,
To reconcile my soul to God;
Needful in Thy indulgent care;
Needful Thy all-prevailing prayer.

3 Needful Thy presence, dearest Lord!
True peace and comfort to afford;
Needful Thy promise, to impart
Fresh life and vigor to my heart.

4 Needful art Thou, my Guide! my Stay!
Thro' all life's dark and weary way;
Nor less in death Thou'lt needful be,
To bring my spirit home to Thee.

5 Then needful still my God! my King!
Thy Name eternally I'll sing:
Glory and praise be ever His,
The One Thing needful, Jesus is!

Amen.

Source: Worship and Service Hymnal: For Church, School, and Home #183

All representative texts • Compare texts^ top

Author: Samuel Medley

Medley, Samuel, born June 23, 1738, at Cheshunt, Herts, where his father kept a school. He received a good education; but not liking the business to which he was apprenticed, he entered the Royal Navy. Having been severely wounded in a battle with the French fleet off Port Lagos, in 1759, he was obliged to retire from active service. A sermon by Dr. Watts, read to him about this time, led to his conversion. He joined the Baptist Church in Eagle Street, London, then under the care of Dr. Gifford, and shortly afterwards opened a school, which for several years he conducted with great success. Having begun to preach, he received, in 1767, a call to become pastor of the Baptist church at Watford. Thence, in 1772, he removed to Byrom Street, Liv… Go to person page >

^ top

Text Information

First Line: Jesus, engrave it on my heart
Title: Jesus, Engrave it
Author: Samuel Medley
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain
^ top

Tune

FEDERAL STREET

Henry Kemble Oliver (b. Beverly, MA, 1800; d. Salem, MA, 1885) composed FEDERAL STREET in 1832, possibly as an imitation of earlier psalm tunes in long meter. He took it to a music class taught by Lowell Mason (who may have contributed to the harmony); Mason (PHH 96) published it in his Boston Acade…

Go to tune page >


ZITHRI


TALLIS' CANON

TALLIS CANON is one of nine tunes Thomas Tallis (PHH 62) contributed to Matthew Parker's Psalter (around 1561). There it was used as a setting for Psalm 67. In the original tune the melody began in the tenor, followed by the soprano, and featured repeated phrases. Thomas Ravenscroft (PHH 59) publish…

Go to tune page >


All tunes published with 'Jesus, Engrave it'^ top

Timeline

^ top

Instances

Instances (1 - 70 of 70)
Page Scan

A Choice Selection of Hymns and Spiritual Songs for the use of the Baptist Church and all lovers of song #356

A Choice Selection of Hymns and Spiritual Songs for the use of the Baptist Church and all lovers of song #356

A New and Choice Selection of Hymns and Spiritual Songs for the Use of the Regular Baptist Church. 10th ed. #d265

A New and Choice Selection of Hymns and Spiritual Songs for the Use of the Regular Baptist Church. 10th ed. #d265
Page Scan

A New Selection of Nearly Eight Hundred Evangelical Hymns, from More than 200 Authors in England, Scotland, Ireland, & America, including a great number of originals, alphabetically arranged #113

A New Selection of Nearly Eight Hundred Evangelical Hymns, from More than 200 Authors in England, Scotland, Ireland, & America, including a great number of originals, alphabetically arranged #113
Page Scan

A New Selection of Seven Hundred Evangelical Hymns ... intended as a Supplement to Dr. Watts's Psalms and Tunes #113

A New Selection of Seven Hundred Evangelical Hymns ... intended as a Supplement to Dr. Watts's Psalms and Tunes #113
Page Scan

A Selection of Hymns, adapted to the devotions of the closet, the family, and the social circle; and containing subjects appropriate to the monthly concerns of prayer for the success... #317

A Selection of Hymns, adapted to the devotions of the closet, the family, and the social circle; and containing subjects appropriate to the monthly concerns of prayer for the success... #317

A Selection of Hymns, from the Best Authors, Designed as a Supplement to Dr. Watts' Psalms and Hymns #d305

A Selection of Hymns, from the Best Authors, Designed as a Supplement to Dr. Watts' Psalms and Hymns #d305
Page Scan

A Selection of Spiritual Songs #393

A Selection of Spiritual Songs #393

Book of Common Praise #d265

Book of Common Praise #d265

Calvary Selection of Spiritual Songs with Music for the Church and the Choir #d426

Calvary Selection of Spiritual Songs with Music for the Church and the Choir #d426

Christ in Song #d287

Christ in Song #d287
TextPage Scan

Christ in Song #780

Christ in Song #780
Page Scan

Christian Chorals #223

Christian Chorals #223
Page Scan

Church Hymns and Tunes #252

Church Hymns and Tunes #252
Page Scan

Church Psalmist #720

Church Psalmist #720
Page Scan

Church Psalmist #720

Church Psalmist #720
Page Scan

College Hymnal #200

College Hymnal #200
Page Scan

Dupuy's Hymns and Spiritual Songs (Rev. corr. and enl.) #66

Dupuy's Hymns and Spiritual Songs (Rev. corr. and enl.) #66
Page Scan

Evangelical Hymns #297

Evangelical Hymns #297

Evangelistic Hymns #d88

Evangelistic Hymns #d88
Page Scan

Fulton Street Hymn Book, for the use of union prayer meetings, Sabbath schools and families #63

Fulton Street Hymn Book, for the use of union prayer meetings, Sabbath schools and families #63
Page Scan

Hymnal Companion to the Prayer Book with Accompanying Tunes (Second Edition) #259

Hymnal Companion to the Prayer Book with Accompanying Tunes (Second Edition) #259
Page Scan

Hymnal Companion to the Prayer Book #208

Hymnal Companion to the Prayer Book #208
Page Scan

Hymnal Companion to the Prayer Book #259

Hymnal Companion to the Prayer Book #259
Page Scan

Hymnal of the Presbyterian Church #167

Hymnal of the Presbyterian Church #167

Hymnal of the Reformed Episcopal Church, adopted in General Council, Chicago, May 1879 #d144

Hymnal of the Reformed Episcopal Church, adopted in General Council, Chicago, May 1879 #d144

Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Selected and Original. 7th ed. #d230

Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Selected and Original. 7th ed. #d230

Hymns for the Use of the Society of United Christian Friends Professing the Faith of Universal Salvation #d196

Hymns for the Use of the Society of United Christian Friends Professing the Faith of Universal Salvation #d196

Hymns for Use in Divine Worship ... Seventh-Day Adventists #d556

Hymns for Use in Divine Worship ... Seventh-Day Adventists #d556
TextPage Scan

Living Hymns #278

Living Hymns #278
Page Scan

Our Hymns #211

Our Hymns #211
Page Scan

Precious Hymns #399

Precious Hymns #399

Psalms and Hymns Adapted to Social, Private and Public Worship in the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. #d399

Psalms and Hymns Adapted to Social, Private and Public Worship in the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. #d399
Page Scan

Psalms and Hymns and Spiritual Songs #604

Psalms and Hymns and Spiritual Songs #604
Page Scan

Select Songs for the Singing Service #111

Select Songs for the Singing Service #111
Page Scan

Select Songs for the Sunday School #111

Select Songs for the Sunday School #111
Page Scan

Songs for the Sanctuary, or Hymns and Tunes for Christian Worship #427

Songs for the Sanctuary, or Hymns and Tunes for Christian Worship #427
Page Scan

Songs for the Sanctuary; or Psalms and Hymns for Christian Worship (Baptist Ed.) #427

Songs for the Sanctuary; or Psalms and Hymns for Christian Worship (Baptist Ed.) #427
Page Scan

Songs for the Sanctuary; or, Psalms and Hymns for Christian Worship (Words only) #427

Songs for the Sanctuary; or, Psalms and Hymns for Christian Worship (Words only) #427
Tune InfoPage Scan

Songs for the Sanctuary #427

Songs for the Sanctuary #427
Page Scan

Songs for the Sanctuary #427

Songs for the Sanctuary #427
Page Scan

Songs for the Sanctuary #427

Songs for the Sanctuary #427
Page Scan

Songs of the Church #227

Songs of the Church #227

The Baptist Hymn Book, in Two Parts #d282

The Baptist Hymn Book, in Two Parts #d282
Page Scan

The Baptist Praise Book #893

The Baptist Praise Book #893

The Book of Common Praise #d276

The Book of Common Praise #d276
Page Scan

The Calvary Selection of Spiritual Songs #211

The Calvary Selection of Spiritual Songs #211

The Chapel Hymn Book #d184

The Chapel Hymn Book #d184

The Church of God Selection of Spiritual Songs for the Church and Choir #d423

The Church of God Selection of Spiritual Songs for the Church and Choir #d423
Page Scan

The Church Praise Book #287

The Church Praise Book #287
Page Scan

The Clifton Chapel Collection of "Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs" #581

The Clifton Chapel Collection of "Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs" #581
Page Scan

The Cluster of Spiritual Songs, Divine Hymns and Sacred Poems #CLIII

The Cluster of Spiritual Songs, Divine Hymns and Sacred Poems #CLIII

The Good Old Songs #d281

The Good Old Songs #d281

The Good Old Songs #667

The Good Old Songs #667
Page Scan

The Liturgy and Hymns of the American Province of the Unitas Fratrum #387

The Liturgy and Hymns of the American Province of the Unitas Fratrum #387
Page Scan

The New Golden Chain of Sabbath School Melodies #40b

The New Golden Chain of Sabbath School Melodies #40b
Page Scan

The New Living Hymns (Living Hymns No. 2) #278

The New Living Hymns (Living Hymns No. 2) #278
Page Scan

The Presbyterian Hymnal #200

The Presbyterian Hymnal #200
Page Scan

The Presbyterian Hymnal #200

The Presbyterian Hymnal #200

The Primitive Hymns #d300

The Primitive Hymns #d300
Page Scan

The Reformed Church Hymnal #72

The Reformed Church Hymnal #72
TextPage Scan

The Seventh-Day Adventist Hymn and Tune Book #366

The Seventh-Day Adventist Hymn and Tune Book #366
Page Scan

The Students' Hymnal #124

The Students' Hymnal #124
Page Scan

The Students' Hymnal #124

The Students' Hymnal #124
Page Scan

The Sweet Singer of Israel #86

The Sweet Singer of Israel #86
Page Scan

The Voice of melody #17b

The Voice of melody #17b

Union Prayer Meeting Hymns #d112

Union Prayer Meeting Hymns #d112

Union Prayer Meeting Hymns #d113

Union Prayer Meeting Hymns #d113
TextPage Scan

Worship and Service Hymnal #183

Worship and Service Hymnal #183
Page Scan

Worship in Song #257

Worship in Song #257
Page Scan

Y.P.S.C.E. Hymns of Christian Endeavor #135

Y.P.S.C.E. Hymns of Christian Endeavor #135
All instances^ top
Suggestions or corrections? Contact us
It looks like you are using an ad-blocker. Ad revenue helps keep us running. Please consider white-listing Hymnary.org or getting Hymnary Pro to eliminate ads entirely and help support Hymnary.org.