Time may tarnish earthly treasures

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Time may tarnish earthly treasures

Author: Eliza E. Hewitt
Tune: [Time may tarnish earthly treasures]
Published in 3 hymnals

Audio files: MIDI

Representative Text

1 Time may tarnish earthly treasures,
Take what I have lov’d before;
Jesus gives abiding pleasures,
Having Him, what need I more?
Having Him, what need I more?

Refrain:
I have Christ and need no more,
From His hand rich gifts outpour,
Lo, I’m singing o’er and o’er,
I have Christ, I need no more.

2 Tho’ the beams of worldly gladness
Fail to light the pathway dim,
Jesus takes away my sadness;
All I need I find in Him.
All I need I find in Him. [Refrain]

3 To His boundless stores of blessing,
Jesus opens wide the door;
All-in-all in Him possessing,
I shall never want for more.
I shall never want for more. [Refrain]

Source: New Songs of Praise and Power 1-2-3 Combined #186

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Author: Eliza E. Hewitt

Pseudonym: Lidie H. Edmunds. Eliza Edmunds Hewitt was born in Philadelphia 28 June 1851. She was educated in the public schools and after graduation from high school became a teacher. However, she developed a spinal malady which cut short her career and made her a shut-in for many years. During her convalescence, she studied English literature. She felt a need to be useful to her church and began writing poems for the primary department. she went on to teach Sunday school, take an active part in the Philadelphia Elementary Union and become Superintendent of the primary department of Calvin Presbyterian Church. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (… Go to person page >

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