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THE
LOVELY
STORY.
"Now
is
my
soul
troubled
and
what
shall
I
say?
Father,
save
me
from
this
hour:
but
for
this
cause
came
I
unto
this
hour."-JOHN
12:
27.
E.
J.
KING,
about
1850.
Key
of
G.
E.
J.
KING,
1850
1.
{A
sto
-
ry
most
love-ly
I'll
tell,
Of
Je
-
sus
(O
won-drous
sur-prize,
He
left
His
ex
-
alt
-
ed
a
-
bode.
When
He
suf-fered
the
tor-ments
of
hell,
That
sin-ners,
vile
sin-
ners
may
-
-
-
rise;
2. {O
did
my
dear
Je-sus
thus
bleed,
And
pit
-
y
a
ruin
-
ed
lost
race;
His
bod
-
y
bore
an-guish
and
pain,
His
O
whence
did
such
mer-cy
pro-ceed,
Such
bound-less
com-pa-sion
and
-
-
-
grace;
man
by
trans
-
gres
-
sion
was
lost,
Ap
-
peas
-
ing
the
wrath
of
a
God,
He
shed
forth
His
blood
as
the
cost.
spir
-
it
most
sunk
with
the
load,
A
short
time
be
-
fore
He
was
slain,
His
sweat
was
as
great
Crops
of
blood.
It
is
not
known
whether
Prof.
E.
J.
King
composed
or
re-arranged
the
words
to
the
above
tune.
He
was
a
fine
singer,
taught
music
in
many
counties
of
Georgia,
and
wrote
some
acceptable
hymns
and
tunes.
A
sketch
of
Mr.
King
is
given
elsewhere
in
this
book.