It Took Jesus to Rescue Me

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I was drifting alone, with no pilot to guide

Author: Herbert Buffum
Tune: [I was drifting alone, with no pilot to guide]
Published in 1 hymnal

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1 I was drifting alone, with no pilot to guide,
Far away on life’s troublesome sea,
When it seemed that the billows I could not outride,
It took Jesus to rescue me.

Refrain:
It took Jesus to rescue me,
It took Jesus to rescue me;
When I sought for release,
Sought in vain for sweet peace,
It took Jesus to rescue me.

2 How I laughed at the dangers of which I was told!
Yes, I tho’t I was happy and free,
But I failed to break loose from the sin chains which hold;
It took Jesus to rescue me. [Refrain]

3 I was just a lost sheep wand’ring farther each day,
Till the night came and I could not see;
And no human hand reached out to point me the way,
It took Jesus to rescue me. [Refrain]

4 Now I’m safe in the life-boat and laugh at the storms,
And I’m telling to others how He,
My great Pilot so true, came my lost soul to save:
It took Jesus to rescue me. [Refrain]

Source: Favorites Number 3: A Collection of Gospel Songs #58

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Author: Herbert Buffum

Herbert Buffum was born in La Fayette, Illinois 13 November 1879. He became a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He started preaching at seventeen years of age. He did city mission work up and down the Pacific Coast and later in small towns in Kansas. He began publishing hymns at the age of eighteen. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916) Go to person page >

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First Line:	I was drifting alone, with no pilot to guide
Title:	It Took Jesus to Rescue Me
Author:	Herbert Buffum
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	It took Jesus to rescue me
Publication Date:	1951
Copyright:	Public Domain