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Praise Him! Praise Him! Jesus, our Redeemer!
Sing, O Earth, His gracious love proclaim!
Hail Him! Hail Him! highest angels in glory;
Strength and honor give to His holy name!
Like a shepherd, Jesus will guard His children;
In His arms He carries them all day long.
Praise Him! Praise Him! Jesus, our Redeemer!
For our sins, He suffered, bled, and died.
He our Rock, the hope of our salvation,
Hail Him! Hail Him! Jesus crucified!
Sound His praises! Jesus, who bore our sorrows!
Love unbounded, wonderful, deep, and strong.
Praise Him! Praise Him! Jesus, our Redeemer!
Heav’nly portals with hosannas ring!
Jesus, Savior, reigns forever and ever.
Crown Him! Crown Him! Prophet, Priest, and King!
Christ is coming, over the world victorious;
Pow’r and glory unto the Lord belong!
The lyricist
Fanny Crosby
Blind from six weeks old, Fanny Crosby taught at the New York Institution for the Blind from 1847 and later gave her days to the city's Bowery rescue missions, writing for the people who came through them. She composed in her head — carrying dozens of finished verses at a time — before dictating them to a copyist, and worked hand in glove with the gospel composers of the revival circuit, among them Ira Sankey and Phoebe Knapp. She wrote so much, some eight thousand hymns, that her publishers had her scatter the credits across nearly two hundred pen names, so that no single hymnal would seem to lean on one author. "I Am Redeemed" appeared that way in 1895, set to Sankey's music and signed "Julia Sterling" — a name that was hers, and wasn't.