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Deeper and
Deeper
Oswald Smith |
"Deeper
and Deeper"
is a 1915 Christian hymn with words and music by Oswald J.
Smith. Oswald Jeffrey Smith (November 8, 1889 – January 25,
1986) was a Canadian pastor, author, and missions advocate. He
founded The Peoples Church in Toronto in 1928.
Smith
attended the Toronto Bible Training School, the Manitoba
Presbyterian College in Winnipeg, and the McCormick Seminary in
Chicago. Smith was ordained as a minister of the Presbyterian
Church of Canada in 1918. However, he resigned from the
Presbyterian Church, set up his own church in Toronto, which
merged with a small Christian and Missionary Alliance
congregation in 1921. In 1928, he started another independent
church in Toronto, the Peoples Church. Using his base in Toronto
for fundraising, he traveled the world to recruit missionaries.
Over the
course of eighty years he preached more than 12,000 sermons in
80 countries, wrote thirty-five books (with translations into
128 languages), as well as 1,200 poems, of which 100 have been
set to music, including "Deeper and Deeper". |
Lyrics by Oswald Smith
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Into the heart of Jesus
Deeper and deeper I go,
Seeking to know the reason
Why He should love me so -
Why He should stoop to lift me
Up from the miry clay,
Saving my soul, making me whole,
Tho I had wandered away.Into
the will of Jesus,
Deeper and deeper I go,
Praying for grace to follow,
Seeking His way to know;
Bowing in full surrender
Low at His blessed feet,
Bidding Him take, break me and make,
Till I am molded and meet.
Into the cross of Jesus
Deeper and deeper I go,
Following thru the garden,
Facing the dreaded foe;
Drinking the cup of sorrow -
Sobbing with broken heart,
"O Savior, help! dear Savior, help!
Grace for my weakness impart." |
Into the joy of Jesus
Deeper and deeper I go,
Rising, with soul enraptured,
Far from the world below;
Joy in the place of sorrow,
Peace in the midst of pain,
Jesus will give, Jesus will give -
He will uphold and sustain.
Into the love of Jesus
Deeper and deeper I go,
Praising the One who brought me
Out of my sin and woe;
And thru eternal ages
Gratefully I shall sing,
"O how He loved! O how He loved!
Jesus, my Lord and my King!" |
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