Jesus Is Precious to Me

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With Jesus, my Lord, all the way I am going

Author: James Rowe
Tune: [With Jesus my Lord all the way I am going]
Published in 7 hymnals

Audio files: MIDI

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1 With Jesus my Lord all the way I am going,
Because his sweet love all my heart is o’erflowing;
My faith in his grace to the world I am showing,
Jesus is precious to me.

Refrain:
Jesus is precious to me,
Always his lover I’ll be,
Wherever he leads by his grace I will follow;
Jesus is precious to me.

2 He lightens my cares and he shares all my sorrow;
Whatever I need from his love I can borrow;
He gives me, each day, strength and hope for the morrow,
Jesus is precious to me. [Refrain]

3 I’m close to the side that for sinners was riven;
The love of my soul to my Saviour I’ve given,
And, now I am sure he will guide me to heaven,
Jesus is precious to me. [Refrain]

Source: The Old Story in Song Number Two #73

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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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