Take Our Gifts

Top Media Text Author Text Info Tune Page Scans Instances

Take our gifts, Lord Jesus

Author: Julia H. Johnston
Tune: [Take our gifts, Lord Jesus]
Published in 2 hymnals

Printable scores: PDF, Noteworthy Composer
Audio files: MIDI

Representative Text

1 Take our gifts, Lord Jesus,
They are thine alone;
We can only bring thee
What was first thine own.

Chorus:
Take them, blessed Master,
Though so few and small,
Use the gifts, we pray thee,
We would bring our all.

2 When we have but pennies,
These we bring to Thee;
When our gifts are larger,
May they all be free. [Chorus]

3 Take the hearts we offer,
Take our willing hands;
May our feet be waiting
For thy blest commands. [Chorus]

4 Take our happy praises,
Hear our earnest prayer;
Take the gifts we bring thee,
Make our lives thy care. [Chorus]

Source: Bible Study Songs: for junior societies, junior and primary Sunday schools #30

All representative texts • Compare texts ^ top

Author: Julia H. Johnston

Julia Harriet Johnston, who was born on Jan. 21, 1849, at Salineville, OH, in Columbiana County. Her father was a minister and he mother was a poet. She began writing when she was nine years old but really started writing verse in high school. She lived in Peoria, Ill. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916) Go to person page >

^ top

Text Information

Text Information

First Line:	Take our gifts, Lord Jesus
Title:	Take Our Gifts
Author:	Julia H. Johnston
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	Take them, blessed Master
Copyright:	Public Domain