Only A Step
- Words:
- Charles H. Gabriel
- Music:
- Charles H. Gabriel
Sheet music
- 1Hear the sweet voice of Jesus say,“Come unto Me, I am the way;”Harken, the loving call obey;Come, for He loves you so.Only a step, only a step:Come, for He bled for you and died;He’s the same loving Savior yet,Jesus the Crucified.
- 2Casting your heavy burden down,Come to the cross, the world may frown;Yet you shall wear a glorious crown,When He makes up His own.Only a step, only a step:Come, for He bled for you and died;He’s the same loving Savior yet,Jesus the Crucified.
- 3Open, for you, the pearly gate;Loved ones for you now watch and wait;Terrible tho’t, to cry “too late”–“Jesus, I come to Thee.”Only a step, only a step:Come, for He bled for you and died;He’s the same loving Savior yet,Jesus the Crucified.
In the hymnals
- Written in 1890, the words are in 45 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
Words, music and setting are in the public domain. The sheet music and words are from PDHymns.com. The piano is the FluidR3 General MIDI sound font (MIT licence). How many hymnals print a hymn, and when it was written, is from Hymnary.org.