Jesus, wondrous Savior

Jesus, oh wondrous Savior, the King of kings!! Lord, You are the fairest. No one else, nothing else can compare with You. All consist in You, our wonderful Lord, and You came to us in Your humility. how we praise You, Lord! how we adore You! Lord, how we long to see Your face, our gracious Savior.

Life is death if severed from Thy throbbing heart!

Lord I love You.

The fifth of se­ven child­ren, Mc­Gre­gor was con­vert­ed at age 20 under the min­is­try of Ca­na­di­an Bap­tist preach­er John Gil­mour (1792-1869). A grad­u­ate of the Ca­na­di­an Li­ter­a­ry In­sti­tute (The­ol­o­gy, 1878) and the Un­i­ver­si­ty of To­ron­to (BA 1881), Mc­Gre­gor joined the fa­cul­ty of To­ron­to Bap­tist Coll­ege in 1886. He was Pro­fess­or of Sys­te­ma­tic The­ol­o­gy at the time of his 1889 ap­point­ment as Prin­ci­pal. His ca­reer was, how­ev­er, short-lived. Af­flict­ed by a form of pa­ral­ys­is, he spent the lat­ter part of 1889 and earl­y 1890 con­fined to bed. He died rough­ly a month af­ter sur­ge­ry for his con­di­tion.

This is work is al­so known as “The Mc­Mas­ter Hymn” be­cause it is the of­fi­cial hymn of Mc­Mas­ter Un­i­ver­si­ty, Ham­il­ton, On­tar­io, Can­a­da. Mc­Greg­or is thought to have writ­ten these words dur­ing Ad­vent 1889. His fam­i­ly do­nat­ed the orig­in­al man­u­script to Mc­Mas­ter Un­i­ver­si­ty in 1921. - cyberhymnal

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There are 2 additional stanzas following stanza 1 above:
1b Fairer far than sunlight
unto eyes that wait
Amid fear and darkness,
’til the morning break;
Fairer than the day-dawn,
hills and dales among,
When its tide of glory
wakes the tide of song.
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1c Sweeter far than music
quivering from keys
That unbind all feeling
with strange harmonies.
Thou art more and dearer
than all minstrelsy;
Only in Thy presence
can joy’s fullness be.

Oh! What a wondrous Savior that I had! Jesus is my real Savior!!! Hallelujah!!