Adapted from Music in the Air: The Golden Age of Gospel Radio 

  By Mark Ward, Sr.

Charles Weigle had come home from an evangelistic campaign when he found a note from his wife: “Charlie, I’ve been a fool. I’ve done without things long enough." Born in 1871, Weigle studied at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music but decided to become an evangelistic singer. Friends and relatives urged him to seek secular employment, but to Weigle this seemed like turning his back on the Lord. By 1927, however, his wife finally wavered. One day as Weigle sat on the porch of a Florida lakeside cottage he thought of jumping off the pier. Yet at that moment, it seemed a voice flashed in his soul: "Charlie, I haven’t forgotten you. Charlie, I care for you. Let not your heart be troubled." Weigle was a prolific composer. By his death in 1966 he'd written more than 400 gospel songs. But for five years he'd put down his pen. Then in 1932 he learned his wife had died under heartbreaking circumstances. “She had less than five years in which to try the world,” Weigle said, “[but] what did the future hold for me?" While reflecting on the Savior who never forsook him, there was rekindled in Weigle's soul the desire to write a song. The words and music came as fast as he could write. Upon its publication in 1932, the song became an instant favorite:

No one ever cared for me like Jesus,

There’s no other friend so kind as He; 

No one else could take the sin and darkness from me, 

O how much he cared for me.