If I gained the world, but lost the Savior

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.