Más cerca, ¡oh Dios!

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Más cerca, ¡oh Dios!

Translator: Vincente Mendoza; Author: Sarah Flower Adams
Tune: BETHANY (Mason)
Published in 7 hymnals

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1 Más cerca ¡oh Dios!, de Ti
Yo quiero estar,
Aunque sobre una cruz
Me haya de alzar;
Mi canto aún así
Constante habrá de ser:
Más cerca, ¡oh Dios!, de Ti,
Más cerca sí.

2 Si caminando voy,
Y de ansiedad
Me lleno al presentir
La oscuridad,
Aún mi sueño así
Me mostrará que estoy
Más cerca, ¡oh Dios!, de Ti,
Más cerca sí.

3 Que encuentre senda aquí
Que al cielo va,
Y en ella tu bondad
Me sostendrá;
Y ángeles habrá
Que me conducirán
Más cerca, ¡oh Dios!, de Ti,
Más cerca sí.

4 Después, al despertar
Te elevaré
Un nuevo y santo altar
De gratitud:
Así mis penas mil
Me harán sentir que estoy
Más cerca, ¡oh Dios!, de Ti
Más cerca, sí.

5 Si en vuelo celestial
Al cielo voy,
Y sol y luna atrás
Dejando estoy,
Alegre entonaré
Mi canto sin igual:
Más cerca, ¡oh Dios!, de Ti,
Más cerca sí.

Source: Culto Cristiano #271

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Translator: Vincente Mendoza

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 >

Author: Sarah Flower Adams

Adams, Sarah, nee Flower. born at Harlow, Essex, Feb. 22nd, 1805; died in London, Aug. 14, 1848, and was buried at Harlow, Aug. 21,1848. She was the younger daughter of Mr. Benjamin Flower, editor and proprietor, of The Cambridge Intelligencer; and was married, in 1834, to William B. Adams, a civil engineer. In 1841 she published Vivia Perpetua, a dramatic poem dealing with the conflict of heathenism and Christianity, in which Vivia Perpetua suffered martyrdom; and in 1845, The Flock at the Fountain; a catechism and hymns for children. As a member of the congregation of the Rev. W. J. Fox, an Unitarian minister in London, she contributed 13 hymns to the Hymns and Anthems, published by C. Fox, Lond., in 1841, for use in his chapel. Of thes… Go to person page >

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Text Information

First Line:	Más cerca, ¡oh Dios!
English Title:	Nearer, my God to Thee
Author:	Sarah Flower Adams
Translator:	Vincente Mendoza
Meter:	6.4.6.4.6.6.6.4
Language:	Spanish
Copyright:	Public Domain