Dying with Jesus, by death reckoned mine

Dying with Jesus, by death reckoned mine. Daniel Webster Whittle* (1840-1901). This hymn is sometimes known by its refrain, ‘Moment by moment I’m kept in His love’. It was written in 1893. In that year an English evangelist, Henry Varley (1835-1912), is said to have told Whittle that ‘I do not like the hymn “I need thee every hour” very well, because I need the Lord every moment of the day.’ Varley’s foolish remark (for ‘every hour’ clearly means ‘all the time’) led to this hymn. It is normally printed in a five-stanza text, although some books, such as the Baptist Hymnal, omit stanza 4: Dying with Jesus, by death reckoned mine;Living with Jesus a new life Divine;Looking to Jesus till...