A Little Sanctuary

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"A little Sanctuary" art Thou to me

Author: Emily Crawford
Tune: ELLERS
Published in 2 hymnals

Piano/Organ
	The Church Pianist's Library, Vol. 9

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1 “A little Sanctuary” art Thou to me!
O Jesus, best belov’d! I live with Thee;
My heart has found its everlasting home,
Its sure abiding place where’er I roam.

2 “A little Sanctuary” art Thou to me!
My heart is still’d beneath love’s canopy;
The “Holiest of All” is open’d wide,
And I may enter and be satisfied.

3 “A little Sanctuary” art Thou to me!
No fabled shrine, but deep reality!
Thou saidst it should be so when at Thy call
I rose and follow’d gladly, leaving all.

4 “A little Sanctuary” art Thou to me!
All joyfully I pitch my tent with Thee;
Or ready still to journey at Thy word—
“In Thee” I “live and move,” most blessèd Lord.

5 “A little Sanctuary” art Thou to me!
I always am “ at home” on land or sea;
Alone, yet never lonely now, I prove
The “Hundredfold,” Lord Jesus, in Thy love.

Source: Hymns of Consecration and Faith #536

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Author: Emily Crawford

Emily May Grimes Crawford is described in the author index of the Book of Common Praise (Toronto, 1938) as a Canadian Anglican [as author of "The Master comes! He calls for thee], which she altogether was nor was not. The hymn was first published in London by the Church Missionary Society (CMS) in 1890, before Emily May Grimes had ever left her native England. In 1893, she went to South Africa under CMS sponsorship to work among the Pondo tribe; then, in 1904, she married T.W.W. Crawford, M.D., and went to work with him among the Kikuyu of Kenya. Her career thus far is outlined in Julian (1907), p. 1712. The mission station at which the bride arrived had indeed been started by the CMS, but had been turned over to the newly-formed mission… Go to person page >

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First Line:	"A little Sanctuary" art Thou to me
Title:	A Little Sanctuary
Author:	Emily Crawford
Language:	English
Publication Date:	1902
Copyright:	This text is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before 1929.