O What a Savior Is Jesus to Me

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O what a Savior is Jesus to me, Loving and true

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman
Tune: [O what a Savior is Jesus to me]
Published in 6 hymnals

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1 O what a Savior is Jesus to me,
Loving and true, loving and true;
Daily renewing His grace unto me
While His commandments I do!

Refrain:
O what a tender, compassionate Friend
I’ve found Him to be, I’ve found Him to be!
O what a wonderful, wonderful Savior
Is Jesus my Lord to me!

2 Never a moment that He is not near,
Grace to bestow, grace to bestow;
Ready to comfort and ready to cheer
As on my journey I go. [Refrain]

3 Is there another so loving a Friend,
Gracious and kind, gracious and kind;
Evermore ready his own to defend,
And so to bless me inclined? [Refrain]

Source: Hymns of the Comforter #87

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Author: Elisha A. Hoffman

Elisha Hoffman (1839-1929) after graduating from Union Seminary in Pennsylvania was ordained in 1868. As a minister he was appointed to the circuit in Napoleon, Ohio in 1872. He worked with the Evangelical Association's publishing arm in Cleveland for eleven years. He served in many chapels and churches in Cleveland and in Grafton in the 1880s, among them Bethel Home for Sailors and Seamen, Chestnut Ridge Union Chapel, Grace Congregational Church and Rockport Congregational Church. In his lifetime he wrote more than 2,000 gospel songs including"Leaning on the everlasting arms" (1894). The fifty song books he edited include Pentecostal Hymns No. 1 and The Evergreen, 1873. Mary Louise VanDyke… Go to person page >

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First Line:	O what a Savior is Jesus to me, Loving and true
Title:	O What a Savior Is Jesus to Me
Author:	Elisha A. Hoffman
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	O what a tender, compassionate Friend
Copyright:	Public Domain