Author: Frederick Whitfield Appears in 576 hymnals First Line: There is a name I love to hear Lyrics: 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
O how I love Jesus,
O how I love Jesus,
O 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. [Refrain]
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. [Refrain]
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. [Refrain]
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. [Refrain]
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. [Refrain]
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. [Refrain]
8. This name shall shed its fragrance still
Along this thorny road,
Shall sweetly smooth the rugged hill
That leads me up to God. [Refrain]
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. [Refrain] Used With Tune: [There is a name I love to hear] Text Sources: First published in an 1855 leaflet, then in Whitfield's Sacred Poems and Prose, 1861.
O How I Love Jesus