On your feet! He’s calling you.
Mark 10:49
Words: Martha E. D. Elerick.
Music: L. J. Bishop, arranged by Robert E. McNeill in Bible Songs of Salvation and Victory (Cincinnati, Ohio: M. W. Knapp, 1902), number 168 (🔊 pdf nwc).
If you know where to get a good photo of Elerick or Bishop (head & shoulders, at least 200×300 pixels),
Jesus, Savior, now is calling,
Turn, O turn from sin away;
He will all your burdens carry,
Turn your darkness into day.
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The precious blood, it cleanseth me;
The precious blood now cleanseth me;
Pure, exhaustless, ever flowing,
Precious blood, it cleanseth me.
Jesus, Savior, now is waiting,
To forgive your every sin;
Haste, O hasten to the fountain;
Now He bids you enter in.
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Jesus, Savior, has commanded,
Be ye wholly sanctified
;
On the day of His returning,
He will welcome home His bride.
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Jesus, Savior, has ascended
To the Father’s realms so fair,
For His people pure and holy,
Heav’nly mansions to prepare.
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Jesus, Savior, how I love Thee,
For the grace Thou dost bestow;
Now Thy precious blood is cleansing
Whiter than the driven snow.
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