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Are You Walking in His Footsteps?

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1 Are you walking in his footsteps,
Are you always doing good,
Do you follow after Jesus
As sincerely as you should?
Do you travel in the pathway
That will shine with brighter light,
Till you reach the mansions yonder,
In the land of pure delight?

Refrain:
Are you walking in his footsteps?
Are you always doing good?
Do you follow after Jesus
As sincerely as you should?

2 Are you walking in his footsteps,
Do you ever seek the lost
In the mountain and the desert,
Whatsoe’er may be the cost?
In the highways and the byways,
Are your footsteps ever found,
Where his wounded feet and bleeding,
Left their marks upon the ground? [Refrain]

3 Are you walking in his footsteps,
As he bids you daily do,
Do you follow near the Savior,
With him constantly in view?
In the sunshine and the shadow,
In the darkness and the light,
Are you pressing in your journey
To the land of pure delight? [Refrain]

Source: Pearls of Praise #66

Author: M. Lowrie Hofford

Born: January 27, 1825, Doylestown, Pennsylvania. Died: January 9, 1888, Trenton, New Jersey. Hofford attended Lafayette and Princeton, where he graduated in 1849. He studied theology at the Princeton seminary for a year, and became principal of the Camden collegiate institute. While there, he organized a church at Beverly, New Jersey, being licensed by the Presbytery in Philadelphia in 1852. In 1855, he was ordained an evangelist in Burlington, New Jersey. In 1860, he began teaching at the Trenton Institute, and in 1863 took charge of a military institute at Allentown, Pennsylvania that was later incorporated as Muhlenberg College; he served there as a professor and later president. He taught and pastored at Camden and Beverly, New Jer… Go to person page >

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First Line: Are you walking in His footsteps?
Title: Are You Walking in His Footsteps?
Author: M. Lowrie Hofford
Language: English
Publication Date: 1886
Copyright: Public Domain

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