Something in that name

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There is something in the name of Jesus

Author: Haldor Lillenas
Tune: [There is something in the name of Jesus]
Published in 3 hymnals

Audio files: MIDI

Representative Text

1 There is something in the name of Jesus
That brings comfort to the broken heart;
And the soul that is by sin enshrouded
Is made clean and white in ev’ry part.

Refrain:
There is something in that name,
There is something in that name,
There is something in the name of Jesus;
‘Tis the sweetest name below
And in heaven we can know,
Nothing sweeter than the name of Jesus.

2 There is something in the name of Jesus
That brings music to believer’s ears;
Thro’ its pow’r the tempests cease their raging
And dispelled are all our anxious fears. [Refrain]

3 There is something in the name of Jesus
That sustains us in each trying hour;
Giving victory in ev’ry conflict
And endueing us with needed pow’r. [Refrain]

4 There is something in the name of Jesus
Far above all other names on earth,
We will laud it while on earth we linger
And in heaven we shall praise its worth. [Refrain]

Source: The King of Glory #100

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Author: Haldor Lillenas

Rv Haldor Lillenas DMus Norway/USA 1885-1959. Born at Stord, near Bergen, Norway, his father sold their 15 acre farm in Norway and emigrated to the U.S., buying a farm in Colton, SD. After he built a sod house, the family (wife and three chldren) also came to SD in 1887. They moved to Astoria, Oregon in 1889, where Lillenas learned English and began writing song lyrics at an early age. In 1900 the family moved again to Roseville, MN, where he worked as a farm laborer and began attending a Lutheran high school at Hawick, MN. He sold a few songs at age 19. At age 21 he began writing more songs, encouraged by some earlier ones becoming popular (“He set me free” was one). His mother died in 1906 and his father returned to ND, but Li… Go to person page >

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