1 Wondrous grace and wondrous mercy,
Pure and boundless, rich and free,
Such as he bestows on sinners,
My dear Lord bestows on me.
Refrain:
O precious love! O boundless grace!
O wondrous mercy, rich and free!
O precious love! O boundless grace!
The grace that reaches even me.
2 I was lost, but Jesus found me,
Pardoned me, forgave my sin;
Washed me in the blood atoning,
Purified and made me clean. [Refrain]
3 How could One so pure and holy,
Love a sinner so depraved?
What a miracle of mercy
That so graciously I’m saved! [Refrain]
4 Trusting in the love of Jesus,
I am filled with perfect peace;
Earth cannot bestow a comfort,
Or a joy so pure as this. [Refrain]
Source: Triumphant Songs No.3 #28
Elisha Hoffman (1839-1929) after graduating from Union Seminary in Pennsylvania was ordained in 1868. As a minister he was appointed to the circuit in Napoleon, Ohio in 1872. He worked with the Evangelical Association's publishing arm in Cleveland for eleven years. He served in many chapels and churches in Cleveland and in Grafton in the 1880s, among them Bethel Home for Sailors and Seamen, Chestnut Ridge Union Chapel, Grace Congregational Church and Rockport Congregational Church. In his lifetime he wrote more than 2,000 gospel songs including"Leaning on the everlasting arms" (1894). The fifty song books he edited include Pentecostal Hymns No. 1 and The Evergreen, 1873.
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