Text: | Blessed Redeemer! Precious Redeemer! |
Author: | Avis M. Christiansen |
Tune: | [Up Calv'ry's mountain one dreadful morn] |
Composer: | Harry D. Loes |
1 Up Calv’ry’s mountain, one dreadful morn,
Walked Christ my Savior, weary and worn;
Facing for sinners death on the cross,
That He might save them from endless loss.
Refrain:
Blessed Redeemer! Precious Redeemer!
Seems I now see Him on Calvary’s tree;
Wounded and bleeding, for sinners pleading,
Blind and unheeding— dying for me!
2 “Father forgive them!” thus did He pray,
E’en while His lifeblood flowed fast away;
Praying for sinners while in such woe—
No one but Jesus ever loved so. [Refrain]
3 Oh, how I love Him, Savior and Friend,
How can my praises ever find end!
Through years unnumbered on heaven’s shore,
My tongue shall praise Him forevermore. [Refrain]
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Up Calv'ry's mountain, one dreadful morn |
Title: | Blessed Redeemer! Precious Redeemer! |
Author: | Avis M. Christiansen (1920) |
Refrain First Line: | Blessed Redeemer! Precious Redeemer! |
Meter: | 9.9.9.9.10.10.10.9 |
Scripture: | |
Topic: | Jesus/Savior |
Source: | Timeless Truths (http://library.timelesstruths.org/music/Blessed_Redeemer_Precious_Redeemer); The Cyber Hymnal (http://www.hymntime.com/tch/htm/b/l/blessedr.htm); Anonymous/Unknown, The Blue Book (51) |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | [Up Calv'ry's mountain one dreadful morn] |
Composer: | Harry D. Loes (1920) |
Meter: | 9.9.9.9.10.10.10.9 |
Key: | E♭ Major |
Source: | Timeless Truths (http://library.timelesstruths.org/music/Blessed_Redeemer_Precious_Redeemer); The Cyber Hymnal (http://www.hymntime.com/tch/htm/b/l/blessedr.htm); Anonymous/Unknown, The Blue Book (51) |