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Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: Saviour more than life to me (FL)

Hymnal: New Christian Hymn and Tune Book

Date: 1882

Compiler: Fillmore Brothers

Publisher/Printer: Fillmore Brothers

First Line: Saviour more than life to me

Topic: Christian/Members of Christ

Writer: F Van Alstyne

Composer: W Doane

Meter: 7s and 9s with refrain

Tune: Every Day

Hymn Number: 624

Page Number: 240, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

SAVIOUR, more than life to me,

I am clinging, clinging close to thee;

Ever be a present friend,

Leave me never, never to the end.-REF.



Ev-ery day, ev-ery hour,

Let me feel thy cleansing power,

May thy ten-der love to me

Bind me clos-er, clos-er, 

Lord to thee.



Through this changing world below

Lead me gently, gently as I go:

Trusting thee, I can not stray,

I can never, never lose my way.-REF.



Let me love thee more and more,

Till this fleeting, fleeting life is o'er;

Till my soul is lost in love,

In a brighter, brighter world above.-REF.