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Jesus, Take This Heart of Mine
Author: Ernest G. Wesley Meter: 7.7.7.7 D Appears in 3 hymnals Lyrics: 1. Jesus, take this heart of mine;
Cleanse from sin and make it Thine.
Thou for me hast bled and died;
I to Thee my heart confide.
Refrain
Jesus, take this heart of mine,
Make it ever, wholly Thine;
May I daily watch and pray:
Never from Thy path to stray.
2. Jesus, take these hands of mine;
Hold them in Thy power divine;
Safe am I when led by Thee,
I Thy child would ever be. [Refrain]
3. Jesus, take these feet of mine;
May they to Thy paths incline;
May I never from Thee stray;
Keep me faithful day by day. [Refrain]
4. Jesus, take this heart of mine;
May it with Thy glory shine;
I would live for Thee alone;
Make me, keep me, all Thine own. [Refrain] Used With Tune: LERMAN Text Sources: The Methodist Sunday School Hymnal (New York: The Methodist Book Concern, 1911), number 148
Jesus, Take This Heart of Mine
Jesus, Take This Heart of Mine
Author: Ernest G. Wesley Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #3289 Meter: 7.7.7.7 D Lyrics: 1. Jesus, take this heart of mine;
Cleanse from sin and make it Thine.
Thou for me hast bled and died;
I to Thee my heart confide.
Refrain
Jesus, take this heart of mine,
Make it ever, wholly Thine;
May I daily watch and pray:
Never from Thy path to stray.
2. Jesus, take these hands of mine;
Hold them in Thy power divine;
Safe am I when led by Thee,
I Thy child would ever be. [Refrain]
3. Jesus, take these feet of mine;
May they to Thy paths incline;
May I never from Thee stray;
Keep me faithful day by day. [Refrain]
4. Jesus, take this heart of mine;
May it with Thy glory shine;
I would live for Thee alone;
Make me, keep me, all Thine own. [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: LERMAN
Jesus, Take This Heart of Mine
Jesus, Take This Heart of Mine
Author: Ernest G. W. Wesley Hymnal: Songs of Life #16 (1921) Tune Title: [Jesus, take this heart of mine]
Jesus, Take This Heart of Mine
Jesus, take this heart of mine
Author: Ernest G. W. Wesley Hymnal: The Methodist Sunday School Hymnal #148 (1911) Languages: English Tune Title: [Jesus, take this heart of mine]
Jesus, take this heart of mine
Joseph W. Lerman
1865 - 1935 Composer of "LERMAN" in The Cyber Hymnal Born: December 23, 1865, London (possibly Bethnal Green), England.
Died: October 24, 1935, Brooklyn, New York.
Lerman emigrated to America as a child (he does not appear in the 1871 British census), and was a member of the Olivet Memorial Church in New York City. He played the organ there (1880-1908), and later at the Sixth Avenue Baptist Church, Borough Park Christian Church, and Fourth Avenue Methodist Church, all in Brooklyn. He wrote a considerable amount of church and Sunday School music, and served as musical editor for the Tullar-Meredith Company of New York City, and the Theodore Pressure Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Sources--
Hughes, p. 472
Reynolds, p. 336
--www.hymntime.com/tch
Joseph W. Lerman
Ernest G. Wellesley-Wesley
Person Name: Ernest G. Wesley Author of "Jesus, Take This Heart of Mine" in The Cyber Hymnal Ernest G. W. Wesley was born and educated in England. At the age of seventeen he started writing for local newspapers. When he was twenty-two he worked as special correspondent for The New York Times in Buenos Aries. While he was in Buenos Aries he became licensed to preach in the Methodist Episcopal Church. He came to the United States in the early 1870's and continued writing and contributing to religious and secular papers. He wrote between five and six hundred hymns and nearly two thousand articles on religious and theological topics.
Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)
Ernest G. Wellesley-Wesley
