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O Jesus So Sweet, O Jesus So Mild

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1 O Jesus so sweet, O Jesus so mild,
for sinners you became a child.
You came from heaven to fulfill
your Father's just and holy will.
O Jesus so sweet, O Jesus so mild.

2 O Jesus so sweet, O Jesus so mild,
with God we now are reconciled.
You have for all the ransom paid,
your Father’s righteous anger stayed.
O Jesus so sweet, O Jesus so mild.

3 O Jesus so sweet, O Jesus so mild,
joy fills the world which sin defiled.
Whate'er we have belongs to you;
O keep us faithful, strong, and true.
O Jesus so sweet, O Jesus so mild.

Source: Christian Worship: Hymnal #540

Translator (st. 1): G. W. Daisley

(no biographical information available about G. W. Daisley.) Go to person page >

Author: Valentin Thilo

Thilo, Valentin, son of Valentin Thiel or Thilo [born Jan. 2, 1579, at Zinten, became diaconus of the Altstadt Church in 1603, and died of the pestilence at Königsberg in 1620], diaconus of the Altstadt Church in Königsberg, was born at Königsberg, April 19, 1607. He matriculated in 1624 at the University of Königsberg as a student of theology, but devoted himself more especially to the study of rhetoric. When the Professor of Rhetoric, Samuel Fuchs, retired in 1632, he recommended Thilo as his successor. The post was, at Thilo's desire, kept open for two years, during which he pursued his studies at the University of Leyden. On returning to Königsberg, he graduated M.A. there on April 20, 1634, and was thereafter installed as Professo… Go to person page >

Translator (sts. 2, 3): Frieda Pietsch

Frieda Emilie Priebbenow (née Pietsch) was born September 13, 1904, in Murtoa, Victoria, Australia, to Paul Johannes Pietsch and Anna Elizabeth Pietsch (née Zadow). One of nine children, she grew up on a farm called Pleasant View in the Wimmera District of Victoria, in Kewell North. She attended the Lutheran Day School. In Lutheran school, she studied the Holy Bible and grew to love studying scripture. In 1928, she moved with her brother, an ordained Lutheran pastor, to St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, Greenwood, Queensland, where she served as his housekeeper. She met a farmer at her brother’s church, Johann (John) Hermann Priebbenow. He was the organist at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Greenwood. Frieda’s two hymn translations… Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: O Jesus so sweet, O Jesus so mild
Title: O Jesus So Sweet, O Jesus So Mild
Author: Valentin Thilo
Translator (sts. 2, 3): Frieda Pietsch
Translator (st. 1): G. W. Daisley
Meter: 10.8.8.8.10
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

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Christian Worship (1993) #366

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Christian Worship #540

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Hymnal Supplement 98 #858

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