LOVE HYMNS

 

 

 

 

 

James M. Black, 1893

"When The Roll Is Called Up Yonder"

When the trumpet of the Lord shall sound and time shall be no more
And the morning breaks eternal bright and fair
When the saved word shall gather over on the other shore
And the roll is called up yonder I'll be there
When the roll is called up yonder
When the roll is called up yonder
When the roll is called up yonder
when the roll is called up yonder I'll be there
On that bright and cloudless morning
when the dead in Christ shall rise
And the glory of his resurrection share
When His chosen ones shall gather
to their home beyond the skies
And the roll is called up yonder I'll be there
When the roll is called up yonder
When the roll is called up yonder
When the roll is called up yonder
when the roll is called up yonder I'll be there
When the roll is called up yonder
When the roll is called up yonder
When the roll is called up yonder
when the roll is called up yonder I'll be there

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 Words: James Rowe,1912.
Music: Howard E. Smith (MIDI, score)
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Rowe and Smith wrote this song in Saug­a­tuck, Con­nec­ti­cut. Ac­cord­ing to Rowe’s daugh­ter:

How­ard E. Smith was a lit­tle man whose hands were so knot­ted with arth­ri­tis that you would won­der how he could use them at all, much less play the pi­a­no…I can see them now, my fa­ther strid­ing up and down hum­ming a bar or two and How­ard E. play­ing it and jot­ting it down.

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LOVE LIFTED ME

1. I was sinking deep in sin, far from the peaceful shore,   Very deeply stained within, sinking to rise no more,
   But the Master of the sea, heard my despairing cry,
   From the waters lifted me, now safe am I.

Refrain

Love lifted me! Love lifted me!
When nothing else could help
Love lifted me!

2. All my heart to Him I give, ever to Him I’ll cling
   In His blessèd presence live, ever His praises sing,
   Love so mighty and so true, merits my soul’s best songs,
   Faithful, loving service too, to Him belongs.

Refrain 

3. Souls in danger look above, Jesus completely saves,
   He will lift you by His love, out of the angry waves.
   He’s the Master of the sea, billows His will obey,
  He your Savior wants to be, be saved today.

 Refrain

 

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Oh, How I Love Jesus

Frederick Whitfield, 1855

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1. There is a Name I love to hear,
   I love to sing its worth;
   It sounds like music in my ear,
   The sweetest Name on earth.
   • Refrain:
     Oh, how I love Jesus,
     Oh, how I love Jesus,
     Oh, how I love Jesus,
     Because He first loved me!
2. It tells me of a Savior’s love,
   Who died to set me free;
   It tells me of His precious blood,
   The sinner’s perfect plea.
3. It tells me of a Father’s smile
   Beaming upon His child;
   It cheers me through this little while,
   Through desert, waste, and wild.
4. It tells me what my Father hath
   In store for every day,
   And though I tread a darksome path,
   Yields sunshine all the way.
5. It tells of One whose loving heart
   Can feel my deepest woe;
   Who in each sorrow bears a part
   That none can bear below.
6. It bids my trembling heart rejoice;
   It dries each rising tear;
   It tells me, in a “still small voice,”
   To trust and never fear.
7. Jesus, the Name I love so well,
   The Name I love to hear:
   No saint on earth its worth can tell,
   No heart conceive how dear.
8. This Name shall shed its fragrance still
   Along this thorny road,
   Shall sweetly smooth the rugged hill
   That leads me up to God.
9. And there with all the blood-bought throng,
   From sin and sorrow free,
   I’ll sing the new eternal song
   Of Jesus’ love for me.

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 Words & Music: John M. Driver, 1892 (MIDI, score).

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WONDERFUL STORY OF LOVE

1. Wonderful story of love;
   Tell it to me again;
   Wonderful story of love;
   Wake the immortal strain!
   Angels with rapture announce it,
   Shepherds with wonder receive it;
   Sinner, O won’t you believe it?

Refrain

Wonderful story of love,
Wonderful! Wonderful!
Wonderful, wonderful story of love.

2. Wonderful story of love;
   Though you are far away;
   Wonderful story of love;
   Still He doth call today;
   Calling from Calvary’s mountain,
   Down from the crystal bright fountain,
   E’en from the dawn of creation,

Refrain

3. Wonderful story of love;
   Jesus provides a rest;
   Wonderful story of love;
   For all the pure and blest,
   Rest in those mansions above us,
  With those who’ve gone on before us,
   Singing the rapturous chorus,

Refrain

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