Te Iubesc Isuse

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1 Te iubesc Isuse, ştiu că eşti al meu;
A lumii plăcere n’o mai doresc eu.
Cât bucuria ta, alt’ nu preţuesc,
De team iubit cândva acum te iubesc.

2 Ca să mă răscumperi, pecruceai murit,
Te iubesc căci spinii fruntea ţiau rănit.
Te iubesc căci tu pe mine m’ai iubit,
De team iubit cândva, acuma este!

3 Te vreau în viaţa’n moarte te iu besc!
Te preţuesc Doamne pe cât timp trăesc!
Si când sudoarea morţii m’acopere,
Voi zice: Isuse, acum te iubesc.

4 În faţa mărirei, pe tronui ceresc,
Uitaîmivoi Jalea, ce’n urmami găsesc.
Pe cap purtând coroana vieţioi cânta:
De team iubit cândva, este acuma!

Source: The Cyber Hymnal #15278

Translator: Anonymous

In some hymnals, the editors noted that a hymn's author is unknown to them, and so this artificial "person" entry is used to reflect that fact. Obviously, the hymns attributed to "Author Unknown" "Unknown" or "Anonymous" could have been written by many people over a span of many centuries. Go to person page >

Author: William R. Featherston

William Ralph Featherston(e) Canada 1846-1873. Born at Montreal, Quebec, Canada, he joined the Wesleyan Methodist Church there. He became a Christian at age 16 while in Toronto, and is thought to have written his famous hymn about the same time. He sent the poem to his aunt, Ms. E. Featherston Wilson and she gave it to a publisher. Adoniram. J Gordon, an evangelist, founder of Gordon College & Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, found the hymn in a 1870 London hymnal and was impressed with the words, but did not like the tune, so he composed the melody that has been used with the hymn ever since. Featherstone is thought to have married Julie R MacAlister in 1869 and that they had a son, John, in 1870. Featherstone died in Montreal a… Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: Te iubesc Isuse, ştiu că eşti al meu
Title: Te Iubesc Isuse
English Title: My Jesus, I love Thee, I know Thou art mine
Author: William R. Featherston (1864)
Translator: Anonymous
Language: Romanian
Copyright: Public Domain

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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