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[Hear the blessed Savior calling the oppressed]

[Hear the blessed Savior calling the oppressed]

Composer: Charles Price Jones
Published in 38 hymnals


Printable scores: PDF, MusicXML
Audio files: MIDI, Recording

Composer: Charles Price Jones

Charles Price Jones born December 9, 1865, near Rome, Georgia. He grew up in Kingston, Georgia, and attended the Baptist church. He was converted in 1884 while living in Cat Island, Arkansas. In 1885 he was called to the ministry and began preaching. In 1888 he attended Arkansas Baptist College and taught school in Grant County, Arkansas. He preached and pastored several Baptist churches. After asking God for a deeper experience of grace and fasting and praying for three days, Jones experienced a closeness with God, and in 1895, along with other Baptist holiness adherents, who taught that a second work of grace can cleanse the Christian of original sin. They started a holiness movement in the Baptist church, and he began teaching holiness i… Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: [Hear the blessed Savior calling the oppressed]
Composer: Charles Price Jones
Meter: 11.11.11.11 with refrain
Incipit: 33345 31176 54465
Key: C Major
Copyright: Public Domain

Timeline

Media

Christian Classics Ethereal Hymnary #569
  • Four-part harmony, full-score (PDF, NWC)
The Cyber Hymnal #956
Text: Come unto Me (Jones)
  • Adobe Acrobat image (PDF)
  • Noteworthy Composer score (NWC)
  • XML score (XML)

Instances

Instances (1 - 13 of 13)
Page Scan

Alabanzas Favoritas No. 2 #72

ScoreAudio

Christian Classics Ethereal Hymnary #569

Church Gospel Songs and Hymns #32

New Songs of Inspiration (vol. one) #86

Page Scan

New Wine In Old Wineskins #11

TextPage Scan

One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism #460

Sacred Songs of the Church #427

Audio

Small Church Music #1543

Page Scan

Songs of Praise #10

Page Scan

Soul-stirring Songs and Hymns (Rev. ed.) #274

TextScoreAudio

The Cyber Hymnal #956

TextAudio

Timeless Truths #739

TextPage Scan

Yes, Lord! #148

Include 25 pre-1979 instances
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