My Jesus, I Love Thee

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My Jesus, I love Thee, my Savior and Friend

Author: J. Williams Butcher
Tune: GORDON (Gordon)
Published in 2 hymnals

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	Four Hymn Meditations

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	Praise...With Stringed Instruments

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	QUIET HYMN MEDITATIONS

Author: J. Williams Butcher

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First Line:	My Jesus, I love Thee, my Savior and Friend
Title:	My Jesus, I Love Thee
Author:	J. Williams Butcher
Language:	English

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Tune

GORDON (Gordon)

In 1870 Featherstone's text came to the attention of Adoniram J. Gordon (b. New Hampton, NH, 1836; d. Boston, MA, 1895), an evangelical preacher who was compiling a new Baptist hymnal. Because he was unhappy with the existing melody for this text, Gordon composed this tune; as he wrote, "in a moment…

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