O For a Thousand Tongues to Sing Hymn Story and Lyrics – Charles Wesley, 1707-1788

O For a Thousand Tongues to Sing Hymn Lyrics

Charles Wesley

1 O for a thousand tongues to sing
My great Redeemer’s praise,
The glories of my God and King,
The triumphs of His grace.

2 My gracious Master and my God,
Assist me to proclaim,
To spread through all the earth abroad,
The honors of Thy name.

3 Jesus! the name that charms our fears,
That bids our sorrows cease;
’Tis music in the sinner’s ears,
’Tis life, and health, and peace.

4 His love my heart has captive made,
His captive would I be,
For He was bound, and scourged and died,
My captive soul to free.

5 He breaks the power of canceled sin,
He sets the prisoner free;
His blood can make the foulest clean;
His blood availed for me.

6 So now Thy blessed Name I love,
Thy will would e’er be mine.
Had I a thousand hearts to give,
My Lord, they all were Thine!

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O For a Thousand Tongues To Sing Hymn History

CHARLES WESLEY, the greatest hymn-writer in Methodist history, wrote over six thousand hymns, some of which have attained the first rank in English hymnody.

He and his brother, John Wesley, admitted that they made more converts through their hymns than through their preaching.

Charles Wesley usually celebrated each anniversary of his birthday by writing a hymn of praise to God.

Little wonder, therefore, that the first anniversary of his conversion, his spiritual birthday, should be celebrated by one of the most helpful hymns in use among Methodists.

The opening line of the hymn, “O for a thousand tongues to sing,” is reminiscent of a remark of praise to God, once uttered to Wesley by Peter Border: “Had I a thousand tongues, I would praise Him with them all.”

When Charles Wesley was converted, he had been ill in bed for some time, and the fear of death had often come into his mind.

On Sunday, May 21, 1738, his brother and some friends came in and sang a hymn. After they went out, he prayed alone for some time.

In his journal, we read: “I was composing myself to sleep in quietness and peace when I heard one come in and say, In the name of Jesus of Nazareth, arise, and believe, and thou shalt be healed of all thine infirmities.

The words struck me to the heart. I lay musing and trembling. With a strange palpitation of heart, I said, yet feared to say, I believe, I believe! ”

These memories he has woven into that wonderful third verse of the hymn:

Jesus! the name that charms our fears,
That bids our sorrows cease;
Tis music in the sinner’s ears,
Tis life, and health, and peace.

Charles Wesley - O for a thousand tongues to sing hymn
Charles Wesley

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