When I Look into His Face

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When I look into the face of Jesus

Author: Eliza E. Hewitt
Tune: [When I look into the face of Jesus]
Published in 1 hymnal

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1 When I look into the face of Jesus,
I’ll forget the sorrows I have known;
Ev’ry grief, like mountain mist, shall vanish,
When, redeemed, I stand before His throne.

Refrain:
When I look into the face
Of the Christ, who by His grace
Brings His ransomed to that bright and happy place,
With the white-robed, heav’nly throng,
I shall sing a “new, new song,”
When I look into His blessed face.

2 When I look into the face of Jesus,
And behold the beauty of my King,
Then, transformed, into His blessed likeness,
To His glory, I will ever sing. [Refrain]

3 When I look into the face of Jesus,
Ev’ry longing will be satisfied;
For His love surpasses human knowledge,
And eternal joys with Him abide. [Refrain]

Source: Progressive Sunday School Songs #55

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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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