1. If I gained the world, but lost the Savior,
  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 Savior,
  Would my gain be worth the lifelong strife?
  Are all earthly pleasures worth comparing
  For a moment with a Christ��filled life?
2. Had I wealth and love in fullest measure,
  And a name revered both far and near,
  Yet no hope beyond, no harbor waiting,
  Where my storm��tossed vessel I could steer;
  If I gained the world, but lost the Savior,
  Who endured the cross and died for me,
  Could then all the world afford a refuge,
  Whither, in my anguish, I might flee?
3. O what emptiness!��without the Savior
  '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 Savior,
  When I come to die, how would it be?
  O to face the valley's gloom without Him!
  And without Him all eternity!
4. 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.