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SDAH 577
In the heart of Jesus there is love for you,
Love most pure and tender, love most deep and true;
Why should you be lonely, why for friendship sigh,
When the heart of Jesus has a full supply?
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Each stanza of this hymn by Alice Pugh, about whom nothing is aspect of Jesus, and the second part poses an appropriate question that should give courage to the believer amid the problems that confront him.
HEART OF JESUS was composed in about 1897 by Charles Henry Forrest, who was born in 1846 in Birmingham, England, and died in 1925 in Lancashire. After its first appearance in the Northfield Hymnal, No. 2, 1916, this hymn has been printed in America only in the Church Hymnal, 1941, and Gospel Melodies, 1944.
📖 Reference: Companion to the Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal by Wayne Hooper and Edward E. White. Review and Herald Publishing Association, 1988.
Text
1
In the heart of Jesus there is love for you,
Love most pure and tender, love most deep and true;
Why should you be lonely, why for friendship sigh,
When the heart of Jesus has a full supply?
2
In the mind of Jesus there is thought for you,
Warm as summer sunshine, sweet as morning dew;
Why should you be fearful, why take anxious thought,
Since the mind of Jesus cares for those He bought?
3
In the field of Jesus there is work for you;
Such as even angels might rejoice to do;
Why stand idly sighing for some lifework grand,
While the field of Jesus seeks your reaping hand?
4
In the home of Jesus there’s a place for you;
Glorious, bright, and joyous, calm and peaceful too;
Why then, like a wanderer, roam with weary pace,
If the home of Jesus holds for you a place?
Hymn Info
Biblical Reference
(a) John 13:1 (b) Matt 6:25 (c) Matt 20:6 (d) John 14:2
Author
Alice Pugh
Hymn Tune
HEART OF JESUS
Metrical Number
6.5.6.5.D.
Composer
C.H. Forrest (1846-1925)
Year Composed
c. 1897
