Ask what great things I know

147 Hendon. 7. 7. 7. 7. 7.

1 Ask ye what great thing I know
   that delights and stirs me so?
   What the high reward I win?
   Whose the name I glory in?
   Jesus Christ, the Crucified.

2 Who defeats my fiercest foes?
   Who consoles my saddest woes?
   Who revives my fainting heart,
   healing all its hidden smart?
   Jesus Christ, the Crucified.

3 Who is life in life to me?
   Who the death of death will be?
   Who will place me on His right,
   with the countless hosts of light?
   Jesus Christ, the Crucified.

4 This is that great thing I know;
   this delights and stirs me so:
   faith in Him who died to save,
   Him who triumphed o'er the grave:
   Jesus Christ, the Crucified.
                         Johann C. Schwedler
                         Tr. by Benjamin H. Kennedy
                         The Methodist Hymnal 1939 edition

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As always, you should ckeck out the biographies! Take this, for example, about Schwedler:

He also founded an orphanage at Niederwiese. He was a near neighbour and great friend of Johann Mentzer and N. L. von Zinzendorf. As a hymnwriter he was useful and popular. The principal theme of his hymns was the Grace of God through Christ, and the joyful confidence imparted to the soul that experienced it.

And Kennedy was no slouch, either, being Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge and authoring numerous treatises on Latin alongside his innumerable hymns and translations of hymns.
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