Um Bom Amigo e Fiel Achei

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Um bom amigo e fiel achei

Translator (sts. 1-3): William Edwin Entzminger; Author (st. 1-3): Jack P. Scholfield (1911); Author (st. 4): David William Hodges (1989)
Tune: [I've found a Friend who is all to me]
Published in 4 hymnals

Representative Text

1 Um bom Amigo, e fiel, achei:
Jesus, meu Salvador;
Contar aquilo que fez por mim
Eu quero, sim, e com fervor.

Refrain:
Graça real, sem fim,
Mostra Jesus por mim;
Gozo me dá, alegria sem par!
Que prazer, prazer!

2 Do mal não deixa de defender,
Seguro bem estou;
Com forte braço, com Seu poder
Ampara-me; contente vou.

3 E, quando necessitado sou,
Eu posso recorrer
Ao Seu tesouro celestial
E bênçãos ricas recolher.

4 Em Cristo todos encontrarão
Amigo sem igual,
Amigo que lhes concederá
Felicidade perenal.

Source: Hinos e Cânticos: com música #442

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Translator (sts. 1-3): William Edwin Entzminger

William Edwin Entzminger was born in South Carolina in 1859. He earned a B.S. from Furman University in South Carolina and then went to Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY for a Doctor of Theology degree. He married Maggie Grace Griffith, and together they became Baptist missionaries in Brazil in 1891. He wrote and translated many hymns.… Go to person page >

Author (st. 1-3): Jack P. Scholfield

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Author (st. 4): David William Hodges

David William Hodges was born in Kansas City, Missouri, December 22, 1942. He has music degrees (B.A., M.A. in voice) from Central Missouri State College (Warrensburg, MO) and a Master's degree in religious education from Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (Kansas City, MO) and studied in the doctoral program at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (Fort Worth, TX). After serving several churches in Missouri, Florida and Texas, he and his family were appointed as missionaries to Brazil under the Foreign (now International) Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. They served from 1980 until retirement in 2010, principally as a professor of voice and conducting in three different Baptist seminaries. He was a member of the… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Um bom amigo e fiel achei
Title:	Um Bom Amigo e Fiel Achei
English Title:	Love Lifted Me
Author (st. 4):	David William Hodges (1989)
Author (st. 1-3):	Jack P. Scholfield (1911)
Translator (sts. 1-3):	William Edwin Entzminger
Meter:	9.6.9.8 with refrain
Language:	Portuguese
Refrain First Line:	Graça real, sem fim
Publication Date:	1991
Copyright:	This text may still be under copyright because it was published in 1991.