The Wonderful Story

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O wonderful, wonderful story Believers so love to repeat

Author: Harriet E. Jones
Tune: [O wonderful, wonderful story] (Towner)
Published in 2 hymnals

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1 O wonderful, wonderful story,
Believers so love to repeat,
How Jesus came down from bright Glory,
To make our redemption complete.

Chorus:
'Tis a wonderful, wonderful story,
The ransomed repeat it in glory;
He comes to redeem,
O rapturous theme,
O wonderful, wonderful story.

2 O wonderful, wonderful Savior,
O boundless his mercy and love;
To offer transgressors his favor,
And crown them his children above. [Chorus]

3 O wonderful, wonderful mansions,
Dear Jesus has gone to prepare;
Thro'out all bright Glory's expansion,
For those that shall dwell with him there. [Chorus]

4 O wonderful crowns for the blood-washed,
Within the sweet Eden of light;
And wonderful harps that are golden
For those in the raiments of white. [Chorus]

Source: Songs of Free Grace #17

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Author: Harriet E. Jones

Harriet E. Rice Jones, 1823-1915 Born: April 18, 1823, Pompey Hollow, Onondaga County, New York. Died: 1915, Binghamton, New York. Buried: Oran Community Church Cemetery, Pompey, Onondaga County, New York. Daughter of Eleazer Rice, Jones lived in Onondaga County, New York. Her girlhood was spent on a farm, receiving what education the country schools and one term at high school could provide. She was always fond of reading, and was a great singer, with a clear ringing voice. On July 7, 1844, she married a son of Rev. Zenas Jones; her husband died in 1879. Her song writing career began when her poetry came to the attention of Dr. M. J. Mun… Go to person page >

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First Line:	O wonderful, wonderful story Believers so love to repeat
Title:	The Wonderful Story
Author:	Harriet E. Jones
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	'Tis a wonderful, wonderful story
Publication Date:	1883
Copyright:	Public Domain