The Christian — Godly Life

Jesus calls us o'er the tumult

No. 660
Metre 8s & 7s.
Tune TALMAR.
Words Anon.
Music Isaac B. Woodbury.
Key E major
Time 3/2
4 stanzas

Words

Jesus calls us o'er the tumultOf our life's wild, restless sea;Day by day his sweet voice soundeth,Saying, "Christian, follow me!"

Jesus calls us from the worshipOf the vain world's golden store;From each idol that would keep us,Saying, "Christian, love me more!"

In our joys and in our sorrows,Days of toil and hours of ease,Still he calls, in cares and pleasures,"Christian, love me more than these!"

Jesus calls us! by thy mercies,Saviour, may we hear thy call;Give our hearts to thy obedience,Serve and love thee best of all!

About this hymn

As printed As printed: running head «THE CHRISTIAN—GODLY LIFE.»; hymn number «660» (large, left), tune name «TALMAR. 8s & 7s.» centred over the music, «ISAAC B. WOODBURY.» at the right (capitals and small capitals). The music is one full-width system; stanza 1 is set between the staves as ONE run-on line in a condensed bold type, with «1.» before «Jesus», without syllable hyphens and not aligned under the notes («soundeth,Saying,» and «Christian,follow» set tight, written with ordinary spaces here). Stanzas 2–4 are printed as text in the left column below the music, under the italic reference line «162, 92, 41.» (= the words may also be sung to the tunes of hymns 162, 92 or 41); «Anon.» in italics after stanza 4. The stanza numbers of the text stanzas are printed without a full stop («2 Jesus»); they are numbered «2.» here like stanza 1. Lines 2 and 4 of each text stanza are indented in the print. The printer's thin space before «;» and «!» and inside the quotation marks («sea ;», «more ! "», «" Christian») is closed up here; the curly quotation marks are written as straight quotes. «Saviour», the lower-case «by» after «Jesus calls us!» and all punctuation are the print's.