Gentle Jesus (Engle)

Gentle Je­sus! How I love Thee

Words can­not my love ex­press;

Day and night I ev­er praise Thee

Full of good­ness

full of grace;

Of Thy con­des­cend­ing good­ness

What ex­am­ple do we find.

Midst ne­glect

con­tempt

and weak­ness

Meek and low­ly was Thy mind.

Come to Je­sus

come to Je­sus;

Jesus loves you

He will save;

Come

O come and He’ll re­ceive you;

Jesus reigns and bids you live.

Oh

how true and con­des­cend­ing

Are the meth­ods Thou dost take;

Lo! be­neath Thy bur­dens bend­ing

Bleeding

dy­ing for my sake;

Teach me how to fol­low

Sav­ior

An ex­am­ple so di­vine;

By my words and tem­per ev­er

All for­bear­ing

all be­nign.