The Savior left heaven, the sinner to save

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The Savior left heaven, the sinner to save

Author: James Rowe
Tune: [The Savior left heaven, the sinner to save]
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1 The Savior left heaven, the sinner to save;
What does it mean to you?
His life as a ransom most freely He gave;
What does it mean to you?

Refrain:
What does it mean to you?
What does it mean to you?
Are you His today, or yet astray?
What does it mean to you?

2 He suffered and died on the cross for your soul;
What does it mean to you?
His blood made a fountain that you might be whole;
What does it mean to you? [Refrain]

3 When dying He pleaded so sweetly for all;
What does it mean to you?
While thorn-crowned, He drank of the wormwood and gall;
What does it mean to you? [Refrain]

Source: Rodeheaver's Gospel Songs for church, Sunday Schools and evangelistic services #117

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Author: James Rowe

Pseudonym: James S. Apple. James Rowe was born in England in 1865. He served four years in the Government Survey Office, Dublin Ireland as a young man. He came to America in 1890 where he worked for ten years for the New York Central & Hudson R.R. Co., then served for twelve years as superintendent of the Mohawk and Hudson River Humane Society. He began writing songs and hymns about 1896 and was a prolific writer of gospel verse with more than 9,000 published hymns, poems, recitations, and other works. 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 >

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