Friday, May 18, 2018

WHAT A FRIEND WE HAVE IN JESUS - Joseph Medlicott Scriven - What a friend we have in Jesus, 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! Have we trials and temptations? 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! Are we weak and heavy laden, 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. Take it to the Lord in prayer!


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What a Friend We Have in Jesus
Joseph Medlicott Scriven
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The story behind the hymn, What a Friend We Have in Jesus..flv

lyrics
What a friend we have in Jesus,
   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!

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Have we trials and temptations?
   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!

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3 Are we weak and heavy laden,
   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." hymnary.org 

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