Enough for Me

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Who Jesus is, I cannot tell

Author: Jeremiah Eames Rankin
Tune: [Who Jesus is, I cannot tell]
Published in 1 hymnal

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1 Who Jesus is, I cannot tell,
Or whence He came, where He doth dwell;
I only know He mixed the clay,
And touched my eyes, and it was day.

Refrain:
I once was blind, but now I see,
And that is quite enough for me,
For me, for me,
And that is quite enough for me.

2 A sinner He? they call Him so,
But whether true I do not know;
One thing is very plain to me,
He touched my eyes, and now I see. [Refrain]

3 Was it e’er known, since time began,
That one born blind was healed of man?
But He who scatters life abroad,
Must be the very Son of God. [Refrain]

4 This wondrous man! is He the Lord?
And am I list’ning to His word?
My Jesus too! I do believe,
And thus my inner sight receive. [Refrain]

Source: Joyful Lays: a new collection of songs, prepared and adapted for the Sunday School #119

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Author: Jeremiah Eames Rankin

Pseudonym: R. E. Jeremy. Rankin, Jeremiah Eames, D.D., was born at Thornton, New Haven, Jan. 2, 1828, and educated at Middleburg College, Vermont, and at Andover. For two years he resided at Potsdam, U.S. Subsequently he held pastoral charges as a Congregational Minister at New York, St. Albans, Charlestown, Washington ( District of Columbia), &c. In 1878 he edited the Gospel Temperance Hymnal, and later the Gospel Bells. His hymns appeared in these collections, and in D. E. Jones's Songs of the New Life, 1869. His best known hymn is "Labouring and heavy laden" (Seeking Christ). This was "written [in 1855] for a sister who was an inquirer," was first printed in the Boston Recorder, and then included in Nason's Congregational Hymn Book,… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Who Jesus is, I cannot tell
Title:	Enough for Me
Author:	Jeremiah Eames Rankin
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	I once was blind, but now I see
Copyright:	Public Domain