We sang this hymn in our church service today.
My Jesus I Love Thee
My Jesus, I love Thee, I know Thou art mine;
For Thee all the follies of sin I resign.
My gracious Redeemer, my Savior art Thou;
If ever I loved Thee, my Jesus, ’tis now.
I love Thee because Thou has first loved me,
And purchased my pardon on Calvary’s tree.
I love Thee for wearing the thorns on Thy brow;
If ever I loved Thee, my Jesus, ’tis now.
I’ll love Thee in life, I will love Thee in death,
And praise Thee as long as Thou lendest me breath;
And say when the death dew lies cold on my brow,
If ever I loved Thee, my Jesus, ’tis now.
In mansions of glory and endless delight,
I’ll ever adore Thee in heaven so bright;
I’ll sing with the glittering crown on my brow;
If ever I loved Thee, my Jesus, ’tis now.
—William R. Featherston
I searched YouTube for a video performance of this hymn and found this one in Chinese Mandarin, which I immediately recognized as the same arrangement that my choir sings. I uploaded a recording of us singing it last summer and you can download the mp3 here. Yes, you, too, can listen to two different choirs in two different languages do exactly the same thing one right after the other. My son declared the experience “slightly bizarre.” I just call it interesting.
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