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[O come, sinner, come! 'tis mercy's call]

[O come, sinner, come! 'tis mercy's call]

Composer: W. Howard Doane
Published in 10 hymnals


Printable scores: PDF, MusicXML
Audio files: MIDI

Composer: W. Howard Doane

An industrialist and philanthropist, William H. Doane (b. Preston, CT, 1832; d. South Orange, NJ, 1915), was also a staunch supporter of evangelistic campaigns and a prolific writer of hymn tunes. He was head of a large woodworking machinery plant in Cincinnati and a civic leader in that city. He showed his devotion to the church by supporting the work of the evangelistic team of Dwight L. Moody and Ira D. Sankey and by endowing Moody Bible Institute in Chicago and Denison University in Granville, Ohio. An amateur composer, Doane wrote over twenty-two hundred hymn and gospel song tunes, and he edited over forty songbooks. Bert Polman… Go to person page >

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Tune Information

Title: [O come, sinner, come! 'tis mercy's call]
Composer: W. Howard Doane
Incipit: 51123 12531 33215
Key: G Major
Copyright: Public Domain
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Texts

Lay It Down

Oh, come, sinner, come! &#;tis mercy&#;s call;
Here at Jesus&#; feet!
Oh come, and, repenting, lay thy all
Down at Jesus&#; feet!

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O come, sinner, come, there's room for thee

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Media

The Cyber Hymnal #3580
Text: Lay It Down
  • Adobe Acrobat image (PDF)
  • Noteworthy Composer score (NWC)
  • XML score (XML)
The Cyber Hymnal #10338
Text: O Come, Sinner, Come
  • PDF (PDF)
  • Noteworthy Composer Score (NWC)
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Instances

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The Cyber Hymnal #3580

The Cyber Hymnal #3580
TextScoreAudio

The Cyber Hymnal #10338

The Cyber Hymnal #10338
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