What are those wounds in thine hands I see

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What are those wounds in thine hands I see

Author: John R. Clements
Tune: [What are those wounds in Thine hands I see]
Published in 2 hymnals

Audio files: MIDI

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1 What are those wounds in Thine hands I see?
Scars, cruel scars opened there for me!
Marks of a day when the sun did hide
A thorn-wounded brow and a pierced side.

Refrain:
What are those wounds in Thine hands I see?
Jesus, my Savior, I pledge to Thee
All that I am or ever can be,
Because of those wounds in Thy hands I see!

2 What are those wounds in Thine hands I see?
Marks that may set all the sin-bound free!
Tokens that tell of a night of gloom—
A pledge to the world of an empty tomb. [Refrain]

3 What are those wounds in Thine hands I see?
Wounds that were made upon Calvary;
Wounds that can heal ev’ry bitter smart,
Relieve and bind up ev’ry broken heart. [Refrain]

Source: Williston Hymns #44

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Author: John R. Clements

John R. Clements was born in County Armagh, Ireland 28 November 1868 and was brought to the United States at the age of two years. He worked at the age of thirteen as a retail grocery clerk and had a successful wholesale grocery business. He began writing poetry when he was young. 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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