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!Oh Cristo! Tu ayuda yo quiero tener

Representative Text

1 ¡Oh Cristo! tu ayuda yo quiero tener;
En todas las luchas que agitan mi ser
Tan solo tú puedes la vida salvar,
Tú sólo la fuerza le puedes prestar.

2 ¡Oh Cristo! La gloria del mundo busqué
Y ansioso mi vida y afán le entregué
Y en cambio mi pecho tan sólo encontró
Torturas sin cuento que el alma apuró.

3 ¡Oh Cristo! Ya quiero llegar a vivir
De aquellos alientos que tú haces sentir
Al alma que huyendo del mal tentador
¡Se vuelve anhelante, se vuelve a tu amor!

4 ¡Oh Cristo! Ya quiero tus huellas seguir
Y gracia constante de ti recibir;
Hallar en mis noches contigo la luz,
¡Y alivio a mis penas al pie de la Cruz!

Source: Cantos Espirituales: para usarse en todos los servicios de la iglesia de Cristo (3rd rev. ed.) #62

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Author: Vicente Mendoza

Vicente Mendoza Born: De­cem­ber 24, 1875, Guad­a­la­ja­ra, Mex­i­co. Died: 1955, Mex­i­co Ci­ty, Mex­i­co. Mendoza stu­died in­i­tial­ly un­der Don Au­re­lio Or­te­ga. At age of 11 he went to work in a Pro­test­ant print shop in Mex­i­co Ci­ty and helped pro­duce El Evan­gel­is­ta Mex­i­ca­no (The Mex­i­can Evan­gel­ist) for the Meth­od­ist Church of the South; he rose to be­come its di­rect­or for 17 years. Look­ing to im­prove him­self, Men­do­za en­tered a night school for work­ers, but lat­er feel­ing the call to preach the Gos­pel, he en­tered the Pres­by­ter­i­an Sem­in­a­ry in Mex­i­co Ci­ty. When the sem­in­a­ry closed temp­o­rar­i­ly, Men­do­za en­tered the… Go to person page >

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Text Information

First Line: !Oh Cristo! Tu ayuda yo quiero tener
Author: Vicente Mendoza
Language: Spanish
Copyright: Public Domain
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Tune

GORDON (Gordon)

In 1870 Featherstone's text came to the attention of Adoniram J. Gordon (b. New Hampton, NH, 1836; d. Boston, MA, 1895), an evangelical preacher who was compiling a new Baptist hymnal. Because he was unhappy with the existing melody for this text, Gordon composed this tune; as he wrote, "in a moment…

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