Memory paints a picture

Memory paints a picture

Author: John R. Clements
Tune: [Memory paints a picture]
Published in 5 hymnals

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Representative Text

1 Mem’ry paints a picture
Very dear to me;
In the twilight seated
There at mother’s knee,
Sweetly she is humming
Notes almost divine:
“My Jesus, I love Thee,
I know Thou art mine.”

2 Often o’er life’s pathway
Hangs a cloud of night,
But my mother’s Savior
Makes the darkness bright,
As I hear her singing,
Joy in ev’ry line:
“My Jesus, I love Thee,
I know Thou art mine.”

3 Often tho’ I’ve wandered,
Till sin held me bound,
I in mother’s message
Sweet relief have found;
To my mother’s Savior
I my all resign:
“My Jesus, I love Thee,
I know Thou art mine.”

4 Something in the message
Always finds my heart,
Often as I hear it,
Will the teardrops start;
Sweet is benediction—
Low my head I bow:
“If ever I love Thee,
My Jesus, ‘tis now.”


Source: Inspiring Gospel Solos and Duets No. 1 #30

Author: John R. Clements

John R. Clements was born in County Armagh, Ireland 28 November 1868 and was brought to the United States at the age of two years. He worked at the age of thirteen as a retail grocery clerk and had a successful wholesale grocery business. He began writing poetry when he was young. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916) Go to person page >

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First Line: Memory paints a picture
Author: John R. Clements
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

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