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Listen To: Alas! And Did My Savior
Bleed
In
November, 1850, thirty year old Fanny
Crosby had been at tending
numerous revival meeting and had
answered the altar call, hoping to find
peace for her soul. But on the 20th of
the month, the audience began to sing
Alas! and Did My Savior Bleed, a hymn
written by Isaac Watts in 1707. It was
when they sang the words, Here, Lord
I give myself away - tis all that I can
do, that Fanny realized that all she
needed was to yield herself. She said: I
surrendered myself to the Saviour, and
my very soul flooded with celestial
light. I sprang to my feet, shouting
Hallelujah.
Isaac Watts said of his hymn writing,
I have made no pretence to be a poet.
But to the Lamb that was slain, and now
lives, I have addressed many a song, to
be sung by the penitent and believing
heart.
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Alas! and did my Saviour bleed, and did
my Sovereign die?
Would He devote that sacred head for
such a worm as I?
Was it for crimes that I had done He
groaned upon the tree?
Amazing pity! grace unknown! and love
beyond degree!
Well might the sun in darkness hide, and
shut His glories in,
When Christ, the Mighty maker, died for
man, the creature’s sins.
Thy body slain, sweet Jesus, Thine - and
bathed in its own blood -
While the firm mark of Wrath Divine His
soul in anguish stood.
Thus might I hide my blushing face while
his dear Cross appears;
Dissolved my heart in thankfulness, and
melt mine eyes to tears.
But drops of grief can ne'er repay the
debt of love I owe;
Here, Lord, I give myself away- tis all
that I can do.
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