1 Cerca, más cerca, ¡oh Dios!, de Ti,
Cerca yo quiero mi vida llevar:
Cerca, más cerca, ¡oh Dios!, de Ti,
Cerca a tu gracia que puede salvar,
Cerca a tu gracia que puede salvar.
2 Cerca, más cerca, cual pobre soy,
Nada, Señor, yo te puedo ofrecer:
Sólo mi ser contrito te doy;
Pueda contigo la paz obtener,
Pueda contigo la paz obtener.
3 Cerca, más cerca, Señor de Ti,
Quiero ser tuyo dejando el pecar;
Goces y pompas vanas aquí,
Todo, Señor, pronto quiero dejar;
Todo, Señor, pronto quiero dejar.
4 Cerca, más cerca mientras el ser
Aliente vida y busque tu paz;
Y cuando al cielo pueda ascender,
Ya para siempre conmigo estarás;
Ya para siempre conmigo estarás.
Source: Culto Cristiano #234
Vicente Mendoza Born: December 24, 1875, Guadalajara, Mexico. Died: 1955, Mexico City, Mexico. Mendoza studied initially under Don Aurelio Ortega. At age of 11 he went to work in a Protestant print shop in Mexico City and helped produce El Evangelista Mexicano (The Mexican Evangelist) for the Methodist Church of the South; he rose to become its director for 17 years. Looking to improve himself, Mendoza entered a night school for workers, but later feeling the call to preach the Gospel, he entered the Presbyterian Seminary in Mexico City. When the seminary closed temporarily, Mendoza entered the… Go to person page >
Lelia (Mrs. C.H.) Morris (1862-1929) was born in Pennsville, Morgan County, Ohio. When her family moved to Malta on the Muskingum River she and her sister and mother had a millinery shop in McConnelsville. She and her husband Charles H. Morris were active in the Methodist Episcopal Church and at the camp meetings in Sebring and Mt. Vernon. She wrote hymns as she did her housework. Although she became blind at age 52 she continued to write hymns on a 28-foot long blackboard that her family had built for her. She is said to have written 1000 texts and many tunes including "Sweeter as the years go by."
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