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Soul, Let Him In

Christ is standing at the door, soul, let Him in!

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman
Published in 5 hymnals

Audio files: MIDI

Representative Text

1 Christ is standing at the door,
Knocking, knocking evermore;
Will you not admit Him in,
And be redeemed from sin?

Refrain:
Open, soul, and let Him in,
You shall be redeemed from sin;
Once within the Lord will leave you never,
He will be your friend forever.

2 Christ is standing at the door,
Waiting, waiting evermore;
Precious soul, no more delay,
Be saved, be saved today. [Refrain]

3 Christ is standing at the door,
Pleading, pleading evermore;
Shall He plead, and plead in vain,
While you unsaved remain? [Refrain]

4 Christ is standing at the door,
Loving, loving evermore;
Shall His love not move your soul,
To come and be made whole? [Refrain]

Source: Songs of Matchless Love: for evangelistic services, devotional meetings and Sunday schools #18

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman

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. Mary Louise VanDyke… Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: Christ is standing at the door, soul, let Him in!
Title: Soul, Let Him In
Author: Elisha A. Hoffman
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

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Instances

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Fair as the Morning. Hymns and Tunes for Praise in the Sunday-School #55

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Glad Tidings #199

Gospel Melodies #d22

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Songs of Matchless Love #18

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Songs of Promise #81

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