{"slug": "nearer-still-nearer", "title": "Nearer, Still Nearer", "first_line": "Nearer, still nearer, close to Thy heart", "author": "lelia-n-morris", "author_date": "1898", "foot": "dactylic", "meter": {"pattern": [9, 10, 9, 10, 10], "doubled": false, "refrain": false, "alleluia": false, "irregular": false}, "topics": ["Consecration", "Aspiration", "Communion with God", "Rest"], "scripture": ["James 4:8", "Psalm 73:28", "Philippians 3:8", "Hebrews 4:9"], "provenance": {"layer": "text", "source": "new-make-christ-king-1914", "source_kind": "hand_encoded", "pd_basis": "pub_pre_1931", "pd_evidence": "Lelia N. Morris (1862-1929), words and music, first published in Pentecostal Praises, ed. W. J. Kirkpatrick & H. L. Gilmour (Philadelphia: Hall-Mack Co., 1898), p. 117 \u2014 archive.org pentecostalprais00kirk, leaf n125 \u2014 footed \"Copyright, 1898, by H. L. Gilmour.\" US public domain: published 1898, every printing read here is itself pre-1931, and the author died in 1929, so it is also PD in life+70 jurisdictions. TRANSCRIBED SYLLABLE BY SYLLABLE, WITH ITS PUNCTUATION, from the four stanza rows printed between the staves of The New Make Christ King (Chicago: Glad Tidings Publishing Co.), No. 87 \u2014 archive.org newmakechristkin00unse leaf 0091 \u2014 and collated word for word against the same four rows in Songs of Praise and Salvation (Chicago/Boston: The Christian Witness Co.), hymn 63 \u2014 archive.org songsofpraisesal00mcla_0 leaf 0065. Neither volume prints a year on its title page; the latest copyright year printed anywhere in the Make Christ King volume is 1914, and in the Songs of Praise and Salvation volume 1902 (archive.org catalogues the latter as 1900). Both pages print the double quotation marks around \"Haven of Rest\" that are kept here. STANZA 4 DIFFERS BETWEEN PRINTINGS, and the difference is deliberate and recorded rather than silently resolved. The 1898 FIRST printing reads \"Nearer, still nearer, while life shall last, / Till all its struggles and trials are past; / Then thro' eternity, ever I'll be / Nearer, my Savior, still nearer to Thee.\" The 1900/1902 and 1914 printings \u2014 the pages this hymn's MUSIC is read from \u2014 read \"Nearer, still nearer, while life shall last, / Till safe in glory my anchor is cast; / Thro' endless ages, ever to be, / Nearer, my Savior, still nearer to Thee.\" THE LATER READING IS SHIPPED, so that the words and the setting come off the same page; the 1898 first-printing variant is not adopted. Stanzas 1-3 agree in every printing consulted. THE LAST POETIC LINE IS SUNG TWICE and the tune engraves the repeat as music of its own, so it is written out as a fifth line in every stanza here: 48 slots per stanza against the tune's 48 soprano note-groups.", "pd_jurisdictions": {"US": true}}, "stanzas": {"1": {"syllabified": "Near -- er, still near -- er, close to Thy heart, Draw me, my Sav -- ior, so pre -- cious Thou art; Fold me, O fold me close to Thy breast, Shel -- ter me safe in that \"Ha -- ven of Rest,\" Shel -- ter me safe in that \"Ha -- ven of Rest.\"", "prose": ["Nearer, still nearer, close to Thy heart,", "Draw me, my Savior, so precious Thou art;", "Fold me, O fold me close to Thy breast,", "Shelter me safe in that \"Haven of Rest,\"", "Shelter me safe in that \"Haven of Rest.\""]}, "2": {"syllabified": "Near -- er, still near -- er, noth -- ing I bring, Naught as an of -- f'ring to Je -- sus my King; On -- ly my sin -- ful, now con -- trite heart, Grant me the cleans -- ing Thy blood doth im -- part, Grant me the cleans -- ing Thy blood doth im -- part.", "prose": ["Nearer, still nearer, nothing I bring,", "Naught as an off'ring to Jesus my King;", "Only my sinful, now contrite heart,", "Grant me the cleansing Thy blood doth impart,", "Grant me the cleansing Thy blood doth impart."]}, "3": {"syllabified": "Near -- er, still near -- er, Lord, to be Thine, Sin, with its fol -- lies, I glad -- ly re -- sign; All of its pleas -- ures, pomp and its pride, Give me but Je -- sus, my Lord cru -- ci -- fied, Give me but Je -- sus, my Lord cru -- ci -- fied.", "prose": ["Nearer, still nearer, Lord, to be Thine,", "Sin, with its follies, I gladly resign;", "All of its pleasures, pomp and its pride,", "Give me but Jesus, my Lord crucified,", "Give me but Jesus, my Lord crucified."]}, "4": {"syllabified": "Near -- er, still near -- er, while life shall last, Till safe in glo -- ry my an -- chor is cast; Thro' end -- less ag -- es, ev -- er to be, Near -- er, my Sav -- ior, still near -- er to Thee, Near -- er, my Sav -- ior, still near -- er to Thee.", "prose": ["Nearer, still nearer, while life shall last,", "Till safe in glory my anchor is cast;", "Thro' endless ages, ever to be,", "Nearer, my Savior, still nearer to Thee,", "Nearer, my Savior, still nearer to Thee."]}}, "license": "The hymn texts and tunes are in the public domain; per-layer provenance is recorded on each record."}