He Hideth My Soul

Story:

.....the next song carries on the theme of salvation, for Fanny knew it wasn't only the destitute Bowery dwellers who needed salvation. Although she had known Jesus from her childhood, it wasn't until the age of 31 that she considered herself truly converted. It happened this way:

With all of her apparent devotion to Christ already shared in so many ways, it is hard to believe that she was not converted until 1851, age 31. This glorious beginning happened at a revival service held at the old John Street Methodist Church in New York which she joined. Recalling the incident years later, she said:
"After a prayer was offered, they began to sing the grand old consecration hymn:

`Alas! And Did My Saviour Bleed?' and
when they reached the third line of the fifth stanza, `Here
Lord, I give myself away,' my very soul was flooded with celestial light."

She wrote of Jesus as a Saviour to herself, just as much as to anyone else. Notice in the hymn we call "He Hideth My Soul", that the first two stanzas begin with the words "A wonderful Saviour is Jesus my Lord."

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