| Show t wa r AID tit L tt A Hlo yinnY I tj s 33 orn S fear feary r BY y CLINT ONNER BONNI y Q- Q 1 0 I o Jesus Loves Even Me 0 1 t T A 4 Com Composer str of 0 Popular S Songs mg Turns Turn to lo writing Hymn I r 1 Du Ing the lb late and ad e early S II a II poor poorman r. man in hla twenties s rodo about rural Pennsyl tania vani driving an an anold old plug he called Fanny 1 t 1 to K a ramshackle buggy that thaL cost COIL him twenty t t dollars dollar But Dut considering that ho had to sup aup lIport t port a wile vita and feed Fanny on thirteen doll dollars dollar a a month hit his buny represented a sizable in ln v vestment j- j 1 j name HIa Iila WM wal Philip Bliss DUlla a gentle t M strained strained music He Jle had bad b been en too poor Nt a lIto to afford an an instrument and his big first note notes v were nt learned on OCt a finto flute he II had bad cut from a cane his bit log lor I cabin homo home in i t 1 j County j l fi fl six t Philip Philp Bliss BUI wrote a song long he be called Vale Ix such luch a hit bit that the the Chicago publishing firm of f Root foot and ud Cady cacs to coma com cometo to ta the Windy City and anel t f I. I i I conduct concerts 1 1 t L But Bat the music multo master oared cared little for popular t ci- ci 1 mute music to write hymns hymn mI and sing the the of the church This love led him to aa an association with Chicago's evangelists Df D D. f t W Whittle and I L. L Moody In ten years yearl 1 yr v was among the tILe foremost gospel ve vh of the nation One Oae night he h. heard Moody ten tell bf of a ship wreck and ad he wrote Let lAt a the Lower Lights Light Be Do Burning Durning He lie to attended a service where the preacher said Mid To To be almost saved aved is I. to be bo entirely lost and he wrote Almost Almost Al AI most mOlt Persuaded At thirty tiro his hi royalties wore counted In tens lone of thousands thousand which he gave ave to charity At AL the Whittle home In Chicago Bliss DU pondered pon pondered dered the question that many hymns hymna were writ written ten along alone the theme of mans man's love for God He Ue reversed the tho Idea and aM one morning while his hll wife waited for him to come to o breakfast he be wrote wrote- I am so 10 glad olad that our Father In Heaven Havn Tells Tella of His HI love In the Book He h. h has given alvn Wonderful things thing In the Bible Bib I a. a see This Is the dearest dealt that Jesus Jasu loves lov meThe me m. The Tho I forget Him and ancl Wander away I Still He H. doth love lov me m. wherever I I. I stray Back Blok to His HII d. d dear loving arms arm would I fI flee When I remember that tt Jesus JUI loves me v vOh Oh If theres there's only one on sons song I can ean sing Ing When In His HI beauty buty I a. a see the great art King This shall my song In eternity bet bs Oh what a wonder that Jesus loves mi me it PI r rm III 17 t miens to a. a t at III Minn sip II IIi i |
