I Love to Tell the Story

The same words as 3 hymnals printed them. Pick two versions to see every change between them: words added, dropped or altered, and verses left out.

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The words are the same. · tune Gethsemane → HANKEY

Christ in Song #303 · 1900 SDA Hymnal #457 · 1985

Verse 1

I love to tell the story of unseen things above,
Of Jesus and His glory, of Jesus and His love.
I love to tell the story, because I know 'tis true;
It satisfies my longings as nothing else can do.

Verse 1

I love to tell the story of unseen things above,
Of Jesus and His glory, of Jesus and His love.
I love to tell the story, because I know 'tis true;
It satisfies my longings as nothing else can do.

Verse 2

I love to tell the story; more wonderful it seems
Than all the golden fancies of all our golden dreams.
I love to tell the story, it did so much for me;
And that is just the reason I tell it now to thee.

Verse 2

Verse 3

I love to tell the story; 'tis pleasant to repeat
What seems, each time I tell it, more wonderfully sweet.
I love to tell the story, for some have never heard
The message of salvation from God's own holy Word.

Verse 3

Verse 4

I love to tell the story; for those who know it best
Seem hungering and thirsting to hear it like the rest.
And when, in scenes of glory, I sing the new, new song,
'Twill be the old, old story that I have loved so long.

Verse 4

Refrain

I love to tell the story; 'twill be my theme in glory
To tell the old, old story of Jesus and His love.

Refrain

I love to tell the story; 'twill be my theme in glory
To tell the old, old story of Jesus and His love.