And Yet There Is Room

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A glad invitation is ringing today

Author: Haldor Lillenas
Tune: [A glad invitation is ringing today]
Published in 7 hymnals

Audio files: MIDI

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1 A glad invitation is ringing today,
And yet there is room, and yet there is room;
The feast is made ready, O do not delay,
And yet there is room at the cross.

Refrain:
And yet there is room, and yet there is room,
Tho’ millions have come there still is room;
To the sad and heartbroken
His pardon is spoken,
And yet there is room at the cross.

2 Go out in the highways and bid them to come,
And yet there is room, and yet there is room;
The friendless and hopeless may here find a home,
And yet there is room at the cross. [Refrain]

3 The sin-sick, the guilty, the lost of the race—
And yet there is room, and yet there is room;
May come seeking mercy and pardoning grace,
And yet there is room at the cross. [Refrain]

4 The hungry and thirsty are here satisfied,
And yet there is room, and yet there is room;
The portals of mercy are still open wide,
And yet there is room at the cross. [Refrain]

Source: Great Gospel Songs #64

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Author: Haldor Lillenas

Rv Haldor Lillenas DMus Norway/USA 1885-1959. Born at Stord, near Bergen, Norway, his father sold their 15 acre farm in Norway and emigrated to the U.S., buying a farm in Colton, SD. After he built a sod house, the family (wife and three chldren) also came to SD in 1887. They moved to Astoria, Oregon in 1889, where Lillenas learned English and began writing song lyrics at an early age. In 1900 the family moved again to Roseville, MN, where he worked as a farm laborer and began attending a Lutheran high school at Hawick, MN. He sold a few songs at age 19. At age 21 he began writing more songs, encouraged by some earlier ones becoming popular (“He set me free” was one). His mother died in 1906 and his father returned to ND, but Li… Go to person page >

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First Line:	A glad invitation is ringing today
Title:	And Yet There Is Room
Author:	Haldor Lillenas
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	And yet there is room, and yet there is room
Publication Date:	1928
Copyright:	Public Domain