My soul shall be joyful in the Lord: it shall rejoice in His salvation.
Psalm 35:9
Words: Thoro Harris, 1917. Appeared in The Sheet Music of Heaven, second edition, by Clayton F. Derstine (Scottdale, Pennsylvania: Mennonite Publishing House, 1926), number 56.
Music: Ceará, adapted from Thoro Harris, 1917, by Richard W. Adams, 2024 (public domain) (🔊 pdf nwc).
Who can cheer the heart like Jesus,
By His presence all divine?
True and tender, pure and precious,
O how blest to call Him mine!
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All that thrills my soul is Jesus;
He is more than life to me;
And the fairest of ten thousand,
In my blessèd Lord I see.
Love of Christ so freely given,
Grace of God beyond degree.
Mercy higher than the heaven,
Deeper than the deepest sea.
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What a wonderful redemption!
Never can a mortal know
How my sin, though red like crimson,
Can be whiter than the snow.
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Every need His hand supplying,
Every good in Him I see;
On His strength divine relying,
He is all in all to me.
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By the crystal flowing river
With the ransomed I will sing,
And forever and forever
Praise and glorify the King.
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