Jesus the Christ of God

Author: Horatius Bonar

Horatius Bonar was born at Edinburgh, in 1808. His education was obtained at the High School, and the University of his native city. He was ordained to the ministry, in 1837, and since then has been pastor at Kelso. In 1843, he joined the Free Church of Scotland. His reputation as a religious writer was first gained on the publication of the "Kelso Tracts," of which he was the author. He has also written many other prose works, some of which have had a very large circulation. Nor is he less favorably known as a religious poet and hymn-writer. The three series of "Hymns of Faith and Hope," have passed through several editions. --Annotations of the Hymnal, Charles Hutchins, M.A. 1872… Go to person page >

Jesus, the Christ of God. H. Bonar. [Praise to Christ.] Appeared in his Hymns of Faith & Hope, 2nd series, 1861, in 7 stanzas of 4 lines, and entitled “Praise to Christ.” It is found in numerous collections in Great Britain and America. In some hymn-books it begins with stanza ii.:—

"Jesus, the Lamb of God,
Who us from hell to raise;"

but this form of the text is not so popular as the original.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)