Great Hymns Of The Faith: Just As I am

 This is copied from the bulletin of Calvary Baptist Church on 472 Ocean Rd in Portsmouth NH 03801. (603) 436-7736


Great Hymns Of The Faith
"Just As I Am"
Charlotte Elliott 1789-1871

        There are many unsaved souls who imagine it is difficult to come to Christ. And this at first was the thought of Charlotte Elliott, the author of this hymn. Shortly after she became an invalid, with a helplessness lasting fifty years, Dr. Milan visited her father and talked with her concerning her soul's salvation. At first she rudely resented this, but afterward repented and asked him how she might find the way to Christ. He replied, "Dear Charlotte, cut the cable, it will take too long to unloose it. Cut it. It is a small loss anyway. You must come to Christ just as your are."  And so, just as she was, she came and found the "...peace of God, which passeth all understanding..." 
(Philippians 4:7).

       Twelve years later, while everyone about her was busy preparing for a bazaar, she was burdened with the thought that as an invalid she was utterly useless herself, and brooded over this thought the long hours of the night. But the next day her faith prevailed, and remembering the words of Dr. Milan which brought about her conversion, she took the pen and wrote the hymn "Just as I am". Without one plea" for her own comfort. Later in the day Mrs. H. V. Elliott entered the room to tell her how the bazaar was progressing, and while there she read the hymn and took a copy of it. The great hymn was thus given to the world and who can say how many have been blessed through the singing of it?
    
        "Just as I am, without one plea, but that Thy blood was shed for me,
        And that Thou bidds't me to come to Thee, O Lamb of God, I come! I come!





2024 / 12 / 26






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