What a Friend We have...

Joseph Scriven, author of the beloved hymn "What A Friend We Have in Jesus" was known to follow the great example of our Lord himself. He was simply referred to as "The Good Man" by members of his community at Woodstock, Canada. He was known for his his charity, piety, lack of concern for his own needs, and adherence to the

truth. For years he tended the cow of a widow and carried the milk to her customers; he sawed wood for those who could not pay, and gave what little he had to the poor.

“What a friend We Have in Jesus” appeared first, unsigned, in Horace Lorenzo Hastings’ Social hymns: original and selected (1865) and since then has become an iconic song of the faith.

What a friend! It must be true, that old saying: "It takes one to know one."

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