Jesus! What a friend for sinners
Jesus! What a friend for sinners. John W. Chapman* (1859-1918).
Written in 1910, when Chapman’s campaign success (with Charles M. Alexander*) was at its height. It had five stanzas, with a refrain. It was given the title ‘Our Great Savior’:
Jesus! What a Friend for sinners!Jesus! Lover of my soul!Friends may fail me, foes assail me,He, my Savior, makes me whole.
Refrain:...
Hallelujah! What a Savior!
Hallelujah! What a Friend!
Saving, helping, keeping, loving,
He’ll be with me to the end.
Jesus! What a strength in weakness!Let me hide myself in him;Tempted, tried, and sometimes failing,He, my strength, my vict’ry wins.
Refrain...
Jesus! What a help in sorrow!While the billows o’er me...
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