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My faith has found a resting place,
From guilt my soul is freed;
I trust the ever-living One;
His wounds for me shall plead.
I need no other argument,
I need no other plea,
It is enough that Jesus died,
And that he died for me.
Enough for me that Jesus saves,
This ends my fear and doubt;
A sinful soul I come to Him,
He’ll never cast me out.
I need no other argument,
I need no other plea,
It is enough that Jesus died,
And that he died for me.
My heart is leaning on the Word,
The written Word of God,
Salvation by my Savior’s name,
Salvation through his blood.
I need no other argument,
I need no other plea,
It is enough that Jesus died,
And that he died for me.
My Great Physician heals the sick,
The lost He came to save;
For me his precious blood he shed,
For me his life he gave.
I need no other argument,
I need no other plea,
It is enough that Jesus died,
And that he died for me.
The lyricist
Eliza Edmunds Hewitt
A schoolteacher at the Northern Home for Friendless Children, Hewitt was struck across the back with a heavy slate by a student she was disciplining. The spinal injury, in 1887, left her partly an invalid for the rest of her life. During the long convalescence she turned to English literature and to writing verses for the primary department of her Presbyterian Sunday school, where she would go on teaching until she died. She published "My Faith Has Found a Resting Place" in 1891 under the pen name Lidie H. Edmunds (her own middle name), and in her later decades worked alongside her close friend Fanny Crosby in the gospel-song circle that produced most of her hymns.
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