Joseph Medlicott Scriven
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The story behind the hymn, What a Friend We Have in Jesus..flv
lyrics
all our sins and griefs to bear!
What a privilege to carry
everything to God in prayer!
O what peace we often forfeit,
O what needless pain we bear,
all because we do not carry
everything to God in prayer!
.
Is there trouble anywhere?
We should never be discouraged;
take it to the Lord in prayer!
Can we find a friend so faithful
who will all our sorrows share?
Jesus knows our every weakness;
take it to the Lord in prayer!
.
cumbered with a load of care?
Precious Savior, still our refuge--
take it to the Lord in prayer!
Do your friends despise, forsake you?
Take it to the Lord in prayer!
In his arms he'll take and shield you;
you wilt find a solace there.
Scriven, Joseph.
Mr. Sankey, in his My Life and Sacred Songs, 1906,
p. 279, says that Scriven was b. in Dublin in 1820, was a graduate of Trinity
College, Dublin, and went to Canada when he was 25, and died there at Port
Hope, on Lake Ontario, in 1886.
His hymn:— What a Friend we have in Jesus. [Jesus our
Friend] was, according to Mr. Sankey, discovered to be his in the following
manner: "A neighbour, sitting up with him in his illness, happened upon a
manuscript of 'What a Friend we have in Jesus.'
Reading it with great delight, and questioning Mr.
Scriven about it, he said he had composed it for his mother, to comfort her in
a time of special sorrow, not intending anyone else should see it."
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