Come and Hear the Story Told

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Come and hear the story told

Author: Eden Reeder Latta
Tune: [Come and hear the story told]
Published in 9 hymnals

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Come and hear the story told,
Of the Savior from above;
It will more thy heart to pity,
It will move thy heart to love;
All the glory that He had
with the Father on His throne,
Lo! He casts aside for sinners,
That He might for them atone.

Chorus:
Come and hear the story told,
Of the Savior from above;
It will more thy heart to pity,
It will move thy heart to love.

Oh, the poverty and woe
That the Savior took instead
Of the glory and the riches
That were all around Him spread;
Yes, my eyes are moved to tears,
and my heart to sympathy,
When I listen to the story
Of the Savior’s love for me.

Just as sweet the story sounds
Of the blessed Savior’s birth,
As it did to watching Shepherds
When it first was born to earth;
Just as sweet the story seems,
Tho’ I’ve heard it o’er and o’er,
Of the Savior’s love and pity,
Such as ne’er was shown before.

Source: Twentieth (20th) Century Songs Part One #119

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Author: Eden Reeder Latta

Rv Eden Reeder Latta USA 1839-1915. Born at Haw Patch, IN, the son of a Methodist minister, (also a boyhood friend of hymn writer Willam A Ogden) he became a school teacher. During the American Civil War he preached for the Manchester Methodist Church and other congregations (possibly as a circuit rider filling empty pulpits). In 1863 he married Mary Elizabeth Wright, and they had five children: Arthur, Robert, Jennie, two others. He taught for the public schools of Manchester, and later Colesburg, IA. He moved to Guttenberg, IA, in the 1890s, and continued writing song lyrics for several major gospel composers, including William Ogden, James McGranahan, James Fillmore, and Edmund Lorenz. He wrote 1600+ songs and hymns, many being wi… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Come and hear the story told
Title:	Come and Hear the Story Told
Author:	Eden Reeder Latta
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	Come and hear the story told
Copyright:	Public Domain