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Grace Is the Thing You Need

If you are burdened and weary and lone

Author: James Rowe
Tune: [If you are burdened and weary and lone]
Published in 1 hymnal

Audio files: MIDI

Representative Text

1 If you are burdened and weary and lone,
If to your soul peace and joy are unknown,
If in the past only tares you have sown,—
Grace is the thing that you need.

Refrain:
Saving grace, grace divine,
Oh, it is helpful indeed!
Let the dear Savior come into your life,
Grace is the thing you need.

2 If you are tired of despair and disgrace,
If you would look the whole world in the face,
Come to the Savior’s uplifting embrace, —
Grace is the thing that you need. [Refrain]

3 If you are weary of living in sin,
If to live better you now would begin,
Let the sweet Spirit of Jesus come in,—
Grace is the thing that you need. [Refrain]

4 If you would hide all your dark, sinful past,
If you would start for the homeland at last,
Come, let your burden on Jesus be cast,—
Grace is the thing that you need. [Refrain]

Source: Calvary's Praises #34

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Author: James Rowe

Pseudonym: James S. Apple. James Rowe was born in England in 1865. He served four years in the Government Survey Office, Dublin Ireland as a young man. He came to America in 1890 where he worked for ten years for the New York Central & Hudson R.R. Co., then served for twelve years as superintendent of the Mohawk and Hudson River Humane Society. He began writing songs and hymns about 1896 and was a prolific writer of gospel verse with more than 9,000 published hymns, poems, recitations, and other works. 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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Text Information

First Line: If you are burdened and weary and lone
Title: Grace Is the Thing You Need
Author: James Rowe
Refrain First Line: Saving grace, grace divine
Copyright: Public Domain
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Calvary's Praises #34

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