1 When Jesus was born in the manger
The shepherds came thither to see,
For the angels proclaimed that a Saviour was born
To save a poor sinner like me.
Refrain:
To save a poor sinner, to save a poor sinner,
To save a poor sinner like me;
For the angels proclaimed that a Saviour was born
To save a poor sinner like me.
2 He was wounded for my transgressions,
Acquainted with sorrow was he;
In the garden he prayed, and sweat great drops of blood,
To save a poor sinner like me.
3 He was brought to Pilate for judgment,
He was sentenced to hang on a tree.
It is finished! he cried, when he suffered and died
To save a poor sinner like me.
4 But death and the grave could not hold him,
He burst them asunder for thee.
On the third day he rose, in spite of his foes,
To save a poor sinner like me.
5 I’m fighting my passage to Heaven,
O’er death I shall conqueror be.
Then to Glory I’ll fly, and shout through the sky:
He saved a poor sinner like me.
Source: The Song Book of the Salvation Army #137
Born: December 31, 1859, Foulden, Norfolk, England.
Died: September 9, 1922, Watford, Hertfordshire, England.
At his memorial service, Salvation Army General Bramwell Booth said, "He sang his way through this life and he will sing his way through Eternity."
Buried: Abney Park Cemetery, London, England.
Son of farm worker John Lawley, young John worked on farms until his family moved to Bradford, where he became an "engine-lad." He came to a Christ at a meeting in Pullan’s Theater in Bradford, and a few months later became a Christian Missions evangelist. He wrote his first Gospel song in 1878 while serving at Jarrow-on-Tyne. He went on to work at Salvation Army (SA) corps and divisions, with SA founder William Booth for over 20… Go to person page >
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