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When saw we Thee a hungered Lord, and ministered unto Thee?

Author: George F. Root
Tune: [When saw we Thee a-hungered, Lord]
Published in 2 hymnals

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1 When saw we thee a hungered, Lord,
And ministered unto Thee?
Inasmuch as ye have done it to the least of these,
Ye have done it unto me.

Refrain:
Blessed lesson that we all may learn,
Blessed plaudit that we all may earn.

2 When saw we thee a-thirst, O Lord,
And ministered unto Thee?
Inasmuch as ye have done it to the least of these,
Ye have done it unto me. [Refrain]

3 When saw we thee a stranger, sick,
Or in prison, and came to Thee?
Inasmuch as ye have done it to the least of these,
Ye have done it unto me. [Refrain]

Source: Wondrous Love: A Collection of Songs and Services for Sunday Schools #66

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Author: George F. Root

Root, George F., MUS. DOC, born in Sheffield, Berkshire County, Mass., Aug. 30, 1820. He is much more widely known as a composer of popular music than as a hymn writer. Four of his hymns are in I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs & Solos, 1878. Nos. 16, 100, 293, and 297. A sympathetic biographical sketch, with portrait, is in The Tonic Sol-Fa Reporter, Sep. 1886. He died Aug. 6, 1895. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)… Go to person page >

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First Line:	When saw we Thee a hungered Lord, and ministered unto Thee?
Title:	Inasmuch
Author:	George F. Root
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	Blessed lesson that we all
Copyright:	Public Domain