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Hymn: Jesus merciful and mild (FL)

Hymnal: New Christian Hymn and Tune Book

Date: 1882

Compiler: Fillmore Brothers

Publisher/Printer: Fillmore Brothers

First Line: Jesus merciful and mild

Topic: Christ/All in All

Writer: Thomas Hastings

Composer: J Dykes

Meter: 7s double

Tune: Hollingside

Hymn Number: 472

Page Number: 157, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

JESUS, merciful and mild,
Lead me as a helpless child:
On no other arm but thine
Would my weary soul recline;
Thou art ready to forgive,
Thou canst bid the sinner live:
Guide the wanderer, day by day,
In the strait and narrow way.


Thou canst fit me, by thy grace,
For the heavenly dwelling-place;
All thy promises are sure,
Ever shall thy love endure.
Then what more could I desire?
How to greater bliss aspire?
All I need, in thee I see;
Thou art all in all to me.