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Balm in Gilead

Author: Clara McAlister Brooks Meter: 13.13.13.14.13.14.13.13 Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: Is there no balm in Gilead, and no physician there Lyrics: 1 Is there no balm in Gilead ... in sickness and despair? Is there no one to free ... and disease. Refrain: Yes, there is balm in Gilead, a great ... your diseases—be healed this very hour! He suffered death to free ... , receive your healing, it is the children’s bread, The ... Used With Tune: [Is there no balm in Gilead, and no physician there]

Backslidings and returns: or the inconstancy of our love

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 101 hymnals First Line: Why is my heart so far from thee Lyrics: 1 Why is my heart so far from ... soul renews The savour of thy grace, My heart presumes ... But ere one fleeting hour is pass'd, The flatt'ring ... my soul with sweet surprise; He draws with loving bands; Divine ... fasten'd to thy cross, Rather than lose thy sight. 10 Make ...

Baptismal Hymn

Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: How lowly is the way Lyrics: 1 How lowly is the way, Our Savior's ... Beneath old Jordan's flood, He meekly laid his head; Thus ... . 5 Lord we obey thy call And humbly thus repair ... , Rest, and remains from this glad hour. 6 Ye lofty ... whose shade, Bend o'er this hallowed brink; And purling streams ...

Baptism of Children

Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: How large Thy Covenant of Grace Lyrics: ... Thee and Those 'who form thy Loins proceed.' JESUS the ancient ... , show'd wond'rous Tenderness; He took young Children in his ... constant are Thy Ways, thy Love endures the same; Thy Promise is to us ... and our's; we mark them with Thy ...

Balm in Secret Prayer

Author: Frances Jane (Fanny) Crosby Appears in 6 hymnals First Line: Pray on, pray on, O trusting heart Refrain First Line: Tho’ the cross is hard to bear Lyrics: ... Let not thy courage fail; But take thy Savior at ... the cross is hard to bear, There is balm in secret ... prayer; Go and tell thy sorrows ... Jesus. 2. What tho’ thy prayers thro’ many tears ... on high; He knows the anguish of thy heart, And ... Used With Tune: [Pray on, pray on, O trusting heart]

Bartimeus

Appears in 243 hymnals First Line: "Mercy, O Thou Son of David!" Lyrics: ... blind Bartimeus prayed? "Others by thy word are saved, Now to ... which none but he could give. 4 Lord, remove this grievous blindess ... , Publishing to all around: "Friends, is not my case amazing? What ... Used With Tune: BARTIMEUS

Banges Herz, dein Gott dir rufet

Author: Fanny J. Crosby; W. R. Appears in 6 hymnals Refrain First Line: Komm, dein Heil ist gar nicht weit! Used With Tune: [Banges Herz, dein Gott dir rufet]

Backsliding and Forgiveness; or, Sin punish'd and Saints saved

Appears in 32 hymnals First Line: Great GOD, how oft did Israel prove Lyrics: ... turns thine anger, and thy love? There is a glass our hearts ... live; His anger oft away he turn'd, Or else with ... flame it burn'd. 7 He saw their flesh was weak ... and frail, He saw temptations still prevail; The ... Scripture: Psalm 78

Balm in Gilead

Author: Unknown Appears in 326 hymnals First Line: How lost was my condition Refrain First Line: There's a balm in Gilead Lyrics: ... Jesus made me whole, There is but one Physician Can cure ... sin-sick soul. Chorus: There is a balm in Gilead, To ... The worst of all diseases Is light, compared with sin; On ... then to this Physician, His help He'll freely give, He makes no ... Used With Tune: [How lost was my condition]

Baptism

Appears in 10 hymnals First Line: When John (though a man) Lyrics: ... claim. 3 You vipers, said he, Who warned you to flee ... have to plead. 5 By this we may see, Our baptism ... tokens of love. 11 By this we may see The whole ... be ashamed, Where Jesus is named; He's precious unto us, though ...