Hymnals of the Stone-Campbell Movement

Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: So tender so precious (FL)

Hymnal: New Christian Hymn and Tune Book

Date: 1882

Compiler: Fillmore Brothers

Publisher/Printer: Fillmore Brothers

First Line: So tender so precious

Topic: <no topic given>

Writer: J Rankin

Composer: E Lorenz

Meter: 6s and 5s with refrain

Tune: How Can I But Love Him

Hymn Number: 581

Page Number: 215, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

SO TENDER, so precious,

My Saviour to me;

So true and so gracious,

I've found him to be.-REF.



REF.-

How can I but love him?

But love him, but love him?

There's no friend above him,

Poor sinner, for thee.



So patient, so kindly

Toward all of my ways;

I blunder so blindly-

He love still repays;-REF.



Of all friends the fairest

And truest is he;

His love is the rarest

That ever can be.-REF.



His beauty, though bleeding

And circled with thorns,

Is then most exceeding,

For grief him adorns.-REF.