I Ought to Know Him

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They tell me there is one who knows my need

Author: William M. Runyan
Tune: [They tell me there is one who knows my need]
Published in 3 hymnals

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1 They tell me there is one who knows my need,
Who for my sinful soul will intercede,
And pardons all who will His warning heed,
To know Him is eternal life.

Refrain:
I ought to know Him, I want to know Him,
Too long I’ve known the way of sin;
I ought to know Him, I want to know Him,
The way of life I now begin.

2 The way of life was opened for us here,
By bleeding cross, by thorns and anguished tear;
To make the sinner’s heav’nly title clear—
To know Him is eternal life. [Refrain]

3 To know Him, yea, to know His dying love,
To find the pilgrim way to heav’n above;
Just now by faith His mercy I would prove,
To know Him is eternal life. [Refrain]

Source: Songs of Full Salvation #23

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Author: William M. Runyan

Showing early musical promise, William Marion Runyan (b. Marion, NY, 1870; d. Pittsburg, KS, 1957) was a substitute church organist by the age of twelve. He became a Methodist minister in 1891 and served several churches in Kansas but turned to evangelism in 1903; he worked for the Central Methodist Conference for the next twenty years. Following that service, Runyan became pastor at the Federated Church at John Brown University, Sulphur Springs, Arkansas. Editor of Christian Workers Magazine, he also served the Moody Bible Institute and was an editor for Hope Publishing Company until his retirement in 1948. Runyan wrote a number of hymn texts, gospel songs, and hymn tunes. Bert Polman Go to person page >

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First Line:	They tell me there is one who knows my need
Title:	I Ought to Know Him
Author:	William M. Runyan
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	I ought to know Him, I want to know Him
Publication Date:	1919
Copyright:	Public Domain