if i gained the world

If I gained the world but lost the Saviour,

were my life worth living for a day?

Could my yearning heart find rest and comfort

in the things that soon must pass away?

If I gained the world, but lost the Saviour,

would my gain be worth the life-long strife?

Are all earthly pleasures worth comparing

for a moment with a Christ-filled life?




Had I wealth and love in fullest measure,

and a name revered both far and near,

yet no hope beyond, no harbour waiting

where my storm-tossed vessel I could steer -

if I gained the world, but lost the Saviour,

who endured the cross and died for me,

could then all the world afford a refuge,

whither in my anguish I might flee?




O what emptiness without the Saviour

mid the sins and sorrows here below!

And eternity, how dark without Him,

only night and tears and endless woe!

What though I might live without the Saviour,

when I come to die, how would it be?

O to face the valley‟s gloom without Him!

And without Him all eternity!




O the joy of having all in Jesus!

What a balm the broken heart to heal!

Ne‟er a sin so great but He‟ll forgive it,

nor a sorrow that He does not feel!

If I have but Jesus, only Jesus,

nothing else in all the world beside,

O then everything is mine in Jesus -

for my needs and more He will provide