!Oh Cristo! Tu ayuda yo quiero tener

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!Oh Cristo! Tu ayuda yo quiero tener

Author: Vicente Mendoza
Tune: GORDON (Gordon)
Published in 10 hymnals

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	Four Hymn Meditations

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1 ¡Oh Cristo! tu ayuda yo quiero tener;
En todas las luchas que agitan mi ser
Tan solo tú puedes la vida salvar,
Tú sólo la fuerza le puedes prestar.

2 ¡Oh Cristo! La gloria del mundo busqué
Y ansioso mi vida y afán le entregué
Y en cambio mi pecho tan sólo encontró
Torturas sin cuento que el alma apuró.

3 ¡Oh Cristo! Ya quiero llegar a vivir
De aquellos alientos que tú haces sentir
Al alma que huyendo del mal tentador
¡Se vuelve anhelante, se vuelve a tu amor!

4 ¡Oh Cristo! Ya quiero tus huellas seguir
Y gracia constante de ti recibir;
Hallar en mis noches contigo la luz,
¡Y alivio a mis penas al pie de la Cruz!

Source: Cantos Espirituales: para usarse en todos los servicios de la iglesia de Cristo (3rd rev. ed.) #62

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Author: Vicente Mendoza

Vicente Mendoza Born: December 24, 1875, Guadalajara, Mexico. Died: 1955, Mexico City, Mexico. Mendoza studied initially under Don Aurelio Ortega. At age of 11 he went to work in a Protestant print shop in Mexico City and helped produce El Evangelista Mexicano (The Mexican Evangelist) for the Methodist Church of the South; he rose to become its director for 17 years. Looking to improve himself, Mendoza entered a night school for workers, but later feeling the call to preach the Gospel, he entered the Presbyterian Seminary in Mexico City. When the seminary closed temporarily, Mendoza entered the… Go to person page >

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First Line:	!Oh Cristo! Tu ayuda yo quiero tener
Author:	Vicente Mendoza
Language:	Spanish
Copyright:	Public Domain

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Tune

GORDON (Gordon)

In 1870 Featherstone's text came to the attention of Adoniram J. Gordon (b. New Hampton, NH, 1836; d. Boston, MA, 1895), an evangelical preacher who was compiling a new Baptist hymnal. Because he was unhappy with the existing melody for this text, Gordon composed this tune; as he wrote, "in a moment…

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