Christ My Song - 2281

He must increase, and I decrease - For me
(Horatius Bonar/Johannes Thomas Rüegg)

For me.

1. He must increase, and I decrease:
  less of myself and more of him!
I am all emptiness, and he
  a fountain filled up to the brim. ; PDF - Midi

2. He takes my poverty and want,
  to give me his o'erflowing wealth;
he takes my sickness on himself,
  to give me his celestial health.

3. He goeth down that I may rise,
  is bound in chains to set me free;
enters my lonely prison-house,
  that I may know his liberty.

4. He drinks my sorrow, weeps my tears,
  that I may taste his joy and rest;
his hunger and his thirst are mine,
  that mine may be his heavenly feast.

5. He takes my name, and gives me his;
  for my poor raiment gives his own;
and all that he has done is mine, –
  his worth, his fullness, and his crown.

Horatius Bonar, The Song of the New Creation, and other pieces, 1872, 157.

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