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[No room for Him, in whose small hand]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: R. A. Kinzie Tune Key: E Flat Major Incipit: 54333 65444 43442

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There Was No Room For Them In The Inn

Author: Mamie Repplier Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: No room for Him, in whose small hand Refrain First Line: Fling wide the door, and bid the Lord Lyrics: 1 No room for Him, in whose small hand The troubled sea and mighty land Lie cradled like a grain of sand; No room, dear Babe, for Thee That Christmas night; and we E’en dare to shut our sinful hearts And turn the key. Refrain: Fling wide the door, and bid the Lord Come in, come in. 2 In vain Thy pleading baby cry Strikes our deaf souls; we pass Thee by, Unsheltered ’neath the wintry sky. No room for God? Shall we Close bar our doors, nor see Our Savior waiting just outside, So turn the key. [Refrain] 3 Fling wide the doors! dear Christ, turn back! The ashes on my heart lie black— Of light and warmth a total lack. This desolation drear Has filled my heart with fear; How can I bid Thee, Christ, my Lord, Find entrance here? [Refrain] 4 What bleaker shelter can there be Than my cold heart’s tepidity— Chilled, wind-tossed as the winter sea? I shrink from Thy pure eye: To offer—naught have I; Yet, in Thy mercy, Lord, I cry, Pass me not by. [Refrain] Used With Tune: [No room for Him, in whose small hand] Text Sources: fount of Blessing by Robert G. Staples (Chicago: Central Book Concern, Publishers, 1880)

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There Was No Room For Them In The Inn

Author: Mamie Repplier Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #13921 First Line: No room for Him, in whose small hand Refrain First Line: Fling wide the door, and bid the Lord Lyrics: 1 No room for Him, in whose small hand The troubled sea and mighty land Lie cradled like a grain of sand; No room, dear Babe, for Thee That Christmas night; and we E’en dare to shut our sinful hearts And turn the key. Refrain: Fling wide the door, and bid the Lord Come in, come in. 2 In vain Thy pleading baby cry Strikes our deaf souls; we pass Thee by, Unsheltered ’neath the wintry sky. No room for God? Shall we Close bar our doors, nor see Our Savior waiting just outside, So turn the key. [Refrain] 3 Fling wide the doors! dear Christ, turn back! The ashes on my heart lie black— Of light and warmth a total lack. This desolation drear Has filled my heart with fear; How can I bid Thee, Christ, my Lord, Find entrance here? [Refrain] 4 What bleaker shelter can there be Than my cold heart’s tepidity— Chilled, wind-tossed as the winter sea? I shrink from Thy pure eye: To offer—naught have I; Yet, in Thy mercy, Lord, I cry, Pass me not by. [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: [No room for Him, in whose small hand]

There Was no Room for Them in the Inn

Author: Mamie Repplier Hymnal: Fount of Blessing #122 (1880) First Line: No room for him, in whose small hand Refrain First Line: Fling wide the door and bid the Lord come in Languages: English Tune Title: [No room for him, in whose small hand]

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Richard Abel Kinzie

1842 - 1918 Person Name: R. A. Kinzie Composer of "[No room for Him, in whose small hand]" in The Cyber Hymnal Richard Abel Kinzie (last name also spelled Kenzie, Kensey, Kinsey) was born in Ohio in 1842 and raised in Geneseo, Illinois. He served as a bugler during the Civil War for the 9th Illinois Cavalry and in the postwar era for the 13th U.S. Infantry. Kinzie taught music in Geneseo after the war, and by the 1880s had moved to Kansas where he taught at the State Normal School in Emporia. He later taught music and sold pianos and organs in Cherryvale, Kansas. He died in 1918. Source: FamilySearch, "The Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (www.familysearch.org : accessed 22 March 2025), Richard Abel Kinsey (GWYQ-9J2), Details. https://www.familysearch.org/en/tree/person/details/GWYQ-9J2