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Hymn: What poor sinner means this sadness (FL)

Hymnal: Psalms Hymns and Spiritual Songs

Date: 1853

Compiler: Alexander Campbell

Publisher/Printer: A Campbell

First Line: What poor sinner means this sadness

Topic: Evangelizing and Recruiting Songs

Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>

Composer:

Meter: 8s 7s and 4s

Tune:

Hymn Number: Song 217

Page Number: 306, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

WHAT, poor sinner, means this sadness?

Wherefore art thou thus cast down?

Let thy grief be turn'd to gladness,

Bid thy restless fears be gone;

Look to Jesus,

And rejoice in his blest name.



Though ten thousand ills beset thee,

From without and from within,

Jesus never will forget thee;

Only turn and follow him:

He is faithful

To perform his gracious word.