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Jesus Loves Even Me
Words & Music: Philip P. Bliss, 1870.
"I think it was in June, 1870, that 'Jesus Loves Even Me' was written," writes Major [Daniel] Whittle. "Mr. and Mrs. Bliss were at that time members of my family in Chicago [Illinois]. One morning Mrs. Bliss came down to breakfast and said, as she entered the room: 'Last night Mr. Bliss had a tune given to him that I think is going to live and be one of the most useful that he has written. I have been singing it all morning, and I cannot get it out of my mind.' She then sang the notes over to us. The idea of Bliss, in writing the hymn, was to bring out the truth that the peace and comfort of a Christian are not founded so much upon his love to Christ as upon Christ's love to him, and that to occupy the mind with Christ's love would produce love and consecration…How much God has used this little song to lead sinners and doubting Christians to look away to Jesus, eternity alone can tell."
Mr. Bliss said that this song was suggested to him by hearing the chorus of the hymn "Oh, how I love Jesus," repeated very frequently in a meeting which he attended. After joining in the chorus a number of times the thought came to him, "Have I not been singing enough about my poor love for Jesus, and shall I not rather sing of his great love for me?" Under the impulse of this thought he went home and composed this, one of his most popular children's hymns.
-- Ira. D. Sankey
Source: The Cyberhymnal
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