[There's salvation full and free]

[There's salvation full and free]

Composer (melody): William J. Henry; Harmonizer: Andrew L. Byers
Published in 3 hymnals


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Composer (melody): William J. Henry

Originally from Ohio, Henry was an early leader in the Holiness Movement near Boyertown, Pennsylvania. In 1889 he, answered a call to hold revival meetings in eastern Pennsylvania. Denominational leaders had received requests from congregations there, but had no one to send. Though Henry was only 22 years old, he proved a very effective organizer. He toured eastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey for several months each year till 1895. He became a very active evangelist and song writer, holding meetings in every American state and in Britain. --www.hymntime.com/tch… Go to person page >

Harmonizer: Andrew L. Byers

Andrew Linnaeus Byers was born on Au­gust 26, 1869 in Al­bany, Il­li­nois. Byers’ mo­ther was song writer Nancy By­ers. In 1890 he became involved with Daniel War­ner & Bar­ney War­ren in evan­gel­is­tic work; later joined the Gos­pel Trump­et pub­lish­ing com­pa­ny as mu­sic ed­it­or for a year. He left that work because of health problems and worked as an evan­gel­ist and pastor in Ida­ho & Or­e­gon be­fore tak­ing a pas­tor­ate in Sac­ra­men­to, Cal­i­for­nia, in 1934. He died on November 9, 1952 in Sacramento, California. His works in­clude: Birth of a Reformation: The Life and La­bors of D. S. War­ner, 1922 NN, Hymnary. Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: [There's salvation full and free]
Composer (melody): William J. Henry
Harmonizer: Andrew L. Byers
Meter: 7.3.7.3.7.7.7.3 with refrain
Key: E Major
Copyright: Public Domain

Texts

At the Cross (Henry)

There’s salvation full and free,
At the cross;
Sinner, come and pardoned be
At the cross;
Lo, the Savior waiting stands,
See His bleeding side and hands,
He will break sin’s awful bands
At the cross.

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