1 I’m happy and singing as onward I go,
That others Thy wonderful story may know;
I’ll tell it each day while I tarry below:
My Savior delivers from sin.
Refrain:
My Savior delivers from sin,
And I am so happy in Him;
Oh, wonderful story!
To Him be the glory!
My Savior delivers from sin.
2 He found me in fetters and took them away,
O’erflowed me with gladness, turned night into day,
And lovingly girded my soul for the fray:
My Savior delivers from sin. [Refrain]
3 I’m under the wings of the Heavenly Dove,
And some day will praise Him forever above,
Because by the pow’r of His infinite love
My Savior delivers from sin. [Refrain]
Source: Rodeheaver's Gospel Songs for church, Sunday Schools and evangelistic services #60
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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