A Cristo doy mi canto

Representative Text

1 A Cristo doy mi canto:
Él salva el alma mía,
me libra del quebranto
y con amor me guía.

Estribillo:
Ensalce nuestro canto
tu sacrosanta historia;
es nuestro anhelo santo mirar,
Jesús, tu gloria.

2 Jamás dolo ni agravios
enlutarán la mente,
si a Cristo nuestros labios
bendicen dulcemente. [Estribillo]

3 Tu nombre bendecido
alegra el alma mía;
tu nombre es a mi oído
dulcísima armonía. [Estribillo]

4 Viviendo he de ensalzarte:
y si abandono el suelo,
veránme ir a adorarte
los ángeles del cielo. [Estribillo]

Source: El Himnario Presbiteriano #43

Author: Ellen M. H. Gates

Gates, Ellen, née Huntingdon, of Elizabeth, New Jersey, is the author of several popular pieces in the American Mission and Sunday School hymn-books. Of these the following have passed from the American books into Sankey's Sacred Songs and Solos:— 1. Come home, come home, you are weary at heart. Invitation. 2. I am now a child of God. Saved through Jesus. 3. I will sing you a song of that beautiful land. Concerning Heaven. 4. O the clanging bells of time. Yearning for Heaven. 5. Say, is your lamp burning, my brother. Watching and Waiting. Concerning her poem which is used as a hymn in America, "If you cannot on the ocean" (Duty), Duffield says her account of its origin is as follows:—"The lines were written upo… Go to person page >

Translator: Anonymous

In some hymnals, the editors noted that a hymn's author is unknown to them, and so this artificial "person" entry is used to reflect that fact. Obviously, the hymns attributed to "Author Unknown" "Unknown" or "Anonymous" could have been written by many people over a span of many centuries. Go to person page >

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Himnario Adventista del Séptimo Día #150

Praise y Adoración #329b

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