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O the joy that fills me every passing day

Author: James Rowe
Tune: [O the joy that fills me every passing day]
Published in 2 hymnals

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1 Oh, the joy that fills me ev’ry passing day!
Oh, the song I’m singing as I go my way!
I no more am burdened, hidden is my past;
I have been to Jesus and am saved at last.

Refrain:
Saved at last, saved at last!
Far behind His back my sins are cast;
I no more am burdened, hidden is my past,
Hallelujah! I’m saved at last!

2 Gone the time of darkness, I am in the light,
Singing happy sonnets with my record bright;
Not a fetter holds me, foes I dread no more;
I have been to Jesus, wand’ring days are o’er. [Refrain]

3 Honor, praise and glory be to Christ my King,
Oh, my soul forever shall His praises sing;
Listen, O ye weary, listen, O ye sad;
Come to Jesus quickly, He will make you glad. [Refrain]

Source: Alexander's Hymns No. 3 #13

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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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