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I Am Resting in the Savior's Love

Representative Text

1 O my heart is thrilled with wondrous joy today!
I am resting in the Saviour’s love;
Christ, the Lord, has taken all my sins away,
I am resting in the Saviour’s love.

Refrain:
I am resting, sweetly resting,
I am resting in the Saviour’s love.

2 At the fountain opened for the soul unclean,
I am resting in the Saviour’s love;
Trusting in his grace I ventured freely in,
I am resting in the Saviour’s love. [Refrain]

3 All my doubts are vanished, all my fears are gone,
I am resting in the Saviour’s love;
When I trusted Jesus, lo! the work was done,
I am resting in the Saviour’s love. [Refrain]

4 O the bliss and rapture! O the wondrous place!
I am resting in the Saviour’s love;
I have never known so pure a joy as this,
I am resting in the Saviour’s love. [Refrain]

5 So I live rejoicing in his love each day,
I am resting in the Saviour’s love;
I am walking with him in the narrow way,
I am resting in the Saviour’s love. [Refrain]

Source: Glorious Praise: specially prepared for use in the prayer meeting, the church service, the young people's meetings, the Sunday school, the evangelistic and other religious gatherings #126

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Author: Elisha A. Hoffman

Elisha Hoffman (1839-1929) after graduating from Union Seminary in Pennsylvania was ordained in 1868. As a minister he was appointed to the circuit in Napoleon, Ohio in 1872. He worked with the Evangelical Association's publishing arm in Cleveland for eleven years. He served in many chapels and churches in Cleveland and in Grafton in the 1880s, among them Bethel Home for Sailors and Seamen, Chestnut Ridge Union Chapel, Grace Congregational Church and Rockport Congregational Church. In his lifetime he wrote more than 2,000 gospel songs including"Leaning on the everlasting arms" (1894). The fifty song books he edited include Pentecostal Hymns No. 1 and The Evergreen, 1873. Mary Louise VanDyke… Go to person page >

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Text Information

First Line: O my heart is thrilled with wondrous joy today
Title: I Am Resting in the Savior's Love
Author: Elisha A. Hoffman
Language: English
Refrain First Line: I am resting, sweetly resting
Copyright: Public Domain
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The Cyber Hymnal #10813

The Cyber Hymnal #10813
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