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Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 6 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Gunnar Wennerberg, 1817-1901 Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 31271 23543 55421 Used With Text: Hush, My Soul, What Voice Is Pleading?

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Hush, My Soul, What Voice Is Pleading?

Author: John E. Lester, 1845-1900 Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 7 hymnals Lyrics: 1. Hush, my soul, what voice is pleading? Thou canst feel its silent power; Who is this that speaks so gently In this solemn evening hour? Stay, poor sinner; life is fleeting, And thy soul is dark within; Wilt thou wait till outer darkness Close in gloom thy life of sin? 2. Hark! it is a voice of sweetness, Tenderly it speaks, and true! Dark and sad, yet strangely yearning, For a peace I never knew. Half inclined to stay and listen, Half inclined to go away; Still I linger, for it whispers, Harden not thy heart today. 3. What is this that steals beside me? Can it be that at my side, In His own mysterious presence, Stands the wondrous Crucified? Why poor sinner, wilt thou linger? I am waiting to forgive; See the meaning of these wound prints; I have died that thou mayest live! 4. Hush, my soul! It is thy Savior! And He seeks His lost one now; He is waiting, flee not from Him, Venture near, before Him bow; Tell Thy sins; He will forgive thee; And He will not love thee less; For the human heart of Jesus Overflows with tenderness. Used With Tune: UPPSALA

Jeso, Loharanon'aina (Jesu, Source of the life)

Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7.8.7 Appears in 2 hymnals Used With Tune: [Jesu Source of the life]

I Have Heard Thy Voice, Lord Jesus

Author: Edith G. Cherry, 1872-1897 Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 14 hymnals Lyrics: 1. I have heard Thy voice, Lord Jesus, Saying in Thy grace divine: Fear thou not, I have redeemed thee; I have called thee, thou art Mine. Lord, I bring Thee full allegiance! Therefore now to Thee I sing, Answering, Yea, Thou hast redeemed me; I am Thine, my Lord, my king! 2. I have nothing worth Thy taking, Thou, whom heav’nly hosts adore, But my heart is longing, yearning, To be Thine forevermore. So I come to Thee, Lord Jesus, Laying in surrender meet All I am, and have, and hope for, All I love, at Thy dear feet. 3. Yet the offerings here are humble, Which Thy children bring to Thee, And their best and sweetest praises Are but rendered falteringly. But our song shall be triumphant, When Thy glory we shall see: All for Jesus! All for Jesus! Now and through eternity. Used With Tune: UPPSALA

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Hush, My Soul, What Voice Is Pleading?

Author: John E. Lester, 1845-1900 Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #2490 Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Lyrics: 1. Hush, my soul, what voice is pleading? Thou canst feel its silent power; Who is this that speaks so gently In this solemn evening hour? Stay, poor sinner; life is fleeting, And thy soul is dark within; Wilt thou wait till outer darkness Close in gloom thy life of sin? 2. Hark! it is a voice of sweetness, Tenderly it speaks, and true! Dark and sad, yet strangely yearning, For a peace I never knew. Half inclined to stay and listen, Half inclined to go away; Still I linger, for it whispers, Harden not thy heart today. 3. What is this that steals beside me? Can it be that at my side, In His own mysterious presence, Stands the wondrous Crucified? Why poor sinner, wilt thou linger? I am waiting to forgive; See the meaning of these wound prints; I have died that thou mayest live! 4. Hush, my soul! It is thy Savior! And He seeks His lost one now; He is waiting, flee not from Him, Venture near, before Him bow; Tell Thy sins; He will forgive thee; And He will not love thee less; For the human heart of Jesus Overflows with tenderness. Languages: English Tune Title: UPPSALA

I Have Heard Thy Voice, Lord Jesus

Author: Edith G. Cherry, 1872-1897 Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #2825 Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Lyrics: 1. I have heard Thy voice, Lord Jesus, Saying in Thy grace divine: Fear thou not, I have redeemed thee; I have called thee, thou art Mine. Lord, I bring Thee full allegiance! Therefore now to Thee I sing, Answering, Yea, Thou hast redeemed me; I am Thine, my Lord, my king! 2. I have nothing worth Thy taking, Thou, whom heav’nly hosts adore, But my heart is longing, yearning, To be Thine forevermore. So I come to Thee, Lord Jesus, Laying in surrender meet All I am, and have, and hope for, All I love, at Thy dear feet. 3. Yet the offerings here are humble, Which Thy children bring to Thee, And their best and sweetest praises Are but rendered falteringly. But our song shall be triumphant, When Thy glory we shall see: All for Jesus! All for Jesus! Now and through eternity. Languages: English Tune Title: UPPSALA

Hush, my soul, what Voice is pleading?

Author: John H. Lester Hymnal: The Hymnal of the Evangelical Mission Covenant Church of America #227 (1950) Languages: English Tune Title: UPSALA

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Edith G. Cherry

1872 - 1897 Person Name: Edith G. Cherry, 1872-1897 Author of "I Have Heard Thy Voice, Lord Jesus" in The Cyber Hymnal Edith Adeline Gilling Cherry United Kingdom 1872-1897. Born at Plymouth, Devon, she was disabled from the age of 16 months by poliomyelitis and walked with crutches. The death of her only sister, who died at age 4, when Edith was age 6, devastated her. She had a gift for poetry and wrote much before the age of 15. She had friends who helped her supporting Sunday school work and the YWCA. She was a gifted illustrator of cards and porcelain which she neatly embellished with flower or fern sprays and Bible texts. Of her verse, she said, they were given to me and all I had to do was write them down. Some of her poems appeared in print in the periodical “The Christian”. She had two strokes in early life, and a 3rd, at age 25, took her life. She wrote beautiful poems and many hymn lyrics, filling 2 volumes. She wrote a poem on hearing of the death of C. H. Spurgeon. John Perry

John Henry Lester

1845 - 1900 Person Name: John E. Lester, 1845-1900 Author of "Hush, My Soul, What Voice Is Pleading?" in The Cyber Hymnal Lester, John Henry, M.A., of St. John's College, Cambridge; B.A. in honours, 1868 ; M.A., 1871. Ordained in 1868, he held several appointments, including the Rectory of South Hackney, 1885-90, and Diocesan Missioner in the diocese of Lichfield, 1880-85. In 1884 he became a Prebendary of Lichfield, and in 1890 Rector of Lexden, Essex. His The Lichfield Church Mission Hymn Book, 1883, was revised as The Lichfield Mission Hymn Book (n.d.). To the former he contributed:— 1. Hark, my soul, the sound of voices. Heaven Desired. 2. Hush, my soul, what voice is pleading? The Voice of Jesus. 3. O happy land of Paradise. Heaven. 4. O come ye redeemed. Praise of Jesus. 5. O solemn hour, so strange and still. Repentance. 6. Until He come! Ah, yes. Awaiting the End. To these in the revised edition he added four original Metrical Litanies. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)