Introduction
Words: Urania L. Bailey, in Pure Gold, edited by Robert Lowry & W. Howard Doane (New York: Biglow & Main, 1871), number 51.
Music: Robert Lowry (🔊 pdf nwc).
And yet there is room.
Luke 14:22
Words: Urania L. Bailey, in Pure Gold, edited by Robert Lowry & W. Howard Doane (New York: Biglow & Main, 1871), number 51.
Music: Robert Lowry (🔊 pdf nwc).
While we were holding meetings in Boston [Massachusetts], in 1876, Mr. Moody was entertained by one of the leading lawyers of the city, who frequently before the meetings would ask what solo I had selected.
If I had none, he would say:
Please sing,The mistakes of my life have been many; for one of the greatest mistakes I have ever made was to ignore God in all my affairs. But at last he took away my only child, a beloved son. That led me to the feet of Jesus, and I bowed to kiss the hand that had laid the rod upon me. Then I told the Lord that I would devote my fortune to his service. In keeping with that promise I erected a college for young women, located at Wellesley Lake, near Boston.This good man has now passed on to his reward. Shortly before he died, Mr. Moody and I purchased a perpetual scholarship in Wellesley College, as a prize to be sought after by the young women of Northfield Seminary [Massachusetts].
Sankey, pp. 266–67
The mistakes of my life have been many,
The sins of my heart have been more,
And I scarce can see for weeping,
But I’ll knock at the open door.
Refrain
I know I am weak and sinful,
It comes to me more and more;
But when the dear Savior shall bid me come in,
I’ll enter the open door.
I am lowest of those who love Him,
I am weakest of those who pray;
But I come as He has bidden,
And He will not say me nay.
Refrain
My mistakes His free grace will cover,
My sins He will wash away,
And the feet that can shrink and falter
Shall walk thro’ the gates of day.
Refrain
The mistakes of my life have been many,
And my spirit is sick with sin,
And I scarce can see for weeping,
But the Savior will let me in.
Refrain