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He Never Forgets His Own

How sweet is the thought that when trials betide

Author: James Rowe
Tune: [How sweet is the thought that when trials betide]
Published in 1 hymnal

Audio files: MIDI

Representative Text

1 How sweet is the tho’t that when trials betide,
When thorns have the way o’ergrown,
The blessed Redeemer is still at our side;
He never forgets His own.

Refrain:
He never forgets His own;
We never are left alone;
He stays at our side to cheer and to guide;
He never forgets His own.

2 He keeps us in mind ev’ry hour of the day,
And ever His love is shown;
To shield us from harm in the dangerous way,
He never forgets His own. [Refrain]

3 The world may forget us, our dear ones may, too,
Or show us but hearts of stone;
But He will be with us the journey all thro’;
He never forgets His own. [Refrain]

Source: Progressive Sunday School Songs #26

Author: James Rowe

Pseudonym: James S. Apple. James Rowe was born in England in 1865. He served four years in the Government Survey Office, Dublin Ireland as a young man. He came to America in 1890 where he worked for ten years for the New York Central & Hudson R.R. Co., then served for twelve years as superintendent of the Mohawk and Hudson River Humane Society. He began writing songs and hymns about 1896 and was a prolific writer of gospel verse with more than 9,000 published hymns, poems, recitations, and other works. 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 >

Text Information

First Line: How sweet is the thought that when trials betide
Title: He Never Forgets His Own
Author: James Rowe
Refrain First Line: He never forgets his own
Copyright: Public Domain

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Progressive Sunday School Songs #26

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