Since on my Savior I believed

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Since on my Savior I believed

Author: Eliza E. Hewitt
Tune: [Since on my Saviour I believed]
Published in 2 hymnals

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1 Since on my Saviour I believed,
His beams around me shine;
The Spirit's witness I received,
I know that He is mine.

Chorus:
"I know whom I have believed,
and am persuaded that He is able
To keep what I have committed
unto Him against that day."

2 I know His love, His faithful care;
His mighty saving pow'r;
His willingness to answer pray'r,
His grace in sun and show'r. [Chorus]

3 In His dear wounded hands I leave
All that concerneth me;
The flow'rs that please, the thorns that grieve,
Shall fraught with blessing be. [Chorus]

4 Tho' all things else should pass away,
He changeless, would remain.
So will I sing, till dawns His day,
Faith's jubilant refrain. [Chorus]

Source: Christ in Song: for all religious services nearly one thousand best gospel hymns, new and old with responsive scripture readings (Rev. and Enl.) #290

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Author: Eliza E. Hewitt

Pseudonym: Lidie H. Edmunds. Eliza Edmunds Hewitt was born in Philadelphia 28 June 1851. She was educated in the public schools and after graduation from high school became a teacher. However, she developed a spinal malady which cut short her career and made her a shut-in for many years. During her convalescence, she studied English literature. She felt a need to be useful to her church and began writing poems for the primary department. she went on to teach Sunday school, take an active part in the Philadelphia Elementary Union and become Superintendent of the primary department of Calvin Presbyterian Church. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (… Go to person page >

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