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Escucha, Pobre Pecador

Representative Text

1 Escucha, pobre pecador,
En Cristo hay perdón;
Te invita hoy tu Redentor,
En él hay salvación.

Refrain:
Ven a Cristo, ven a Cristo,
Ven a Emmanuel;
Y la vida, vida eterna,
Hallaras en el.

2 Por redimirte el Salvador,
Su sangre derramo;
Y en la cruz, con cruel dolor,
Tu redención obro. [Refrain]

3 Camino cierto es Jesús,
Ven y feliz serás,
Iras a la mansión de luz,
Descanso hallaras. [Refrain]

4 Ven con el santo pueblo fiel,
Dejando todo mal;
Así la paz de Dios tendrás,
Y gloria inmortal. [Refrain]

Source: Cantos Espirituales: para usarse en todos los servicios de la iglesia de Cristo (3rd rev. ed.) #119

Translator: H. G. Jackson

Henry Godden Jackson Born: January 1, 1838, Manchester, Indiana. Died: November 12, 1914. A Methodist minister, Jackson and his wife Alice spent many years as missionaries in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Upon their return to America, they lived in the River Forest/Oak Park area of Chicago, Illinois. © Cyber Hymnal™ (hymntime.com/tch) Go to person page >

Author: John H. Stockton

Stockton, John Hart, a Methodist minister, was born in 1813, and died in 1877. He was a member of the New Jersey Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and the successive pastoral charges that he filled as a member of that Conference are found in the Conference Journal. He was not only a preacher, but a musician and composer of tunes, as well as hymn writer. He published two gospel song books: Salvation Melodies, 1874, and Precious Songs, 1875. Hymn Writers of the Church by Charles Nutter, 1911… Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: Escucha pobre pecador
Title: Escucha, Pobre Pecador
English Title: Come, every soul by sin oppressed
Translator: H. G. Jackson
Author: John H. Stockton
Meter: 8.6.8.6 with refrain
Language: Spanish
Refrain First Line: Ven a Cristo, ven a Cristo

Tune

STOCKTON (Stockton)

John H. Stockton (b. New Hope, PA, 1813; d. Philadelphia, PA, 1877) composed MINERVA for one of his own gospel-hymn texts, "Come, Every Soul by Sin Oppressed." The tune was published in his Salvation Melodies No.1 (1874); however, it had also been published earlier in Joyful Songs Nos. 1-3 Combined…

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Timeline

Instances

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El Himnario Bautista de la Gracia #290

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