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Take the Step

Brother, at the threshold standing

Author: Mary More
Tune: [Brother, at the threshold standing]
Published in 10 hymnals

Audio files: MIDI

Representative Text

1 Brother, at the threshold standing,
See you not the open door,
See you not the hand extended,
Reaching out to help you o’er?

Chorus:
Take the step, my brother, take it,
Take the step and yield to God;
Rise and Christ confess as Savior,
Take the step and trust his word, and trust his word.

2 See the banquet hall of mercy,
See thy seat that vacant stands,
Think of loved ones waiting for thee,
See them now with beckoning hands. [Chorus]

3 Keep thy Lord no longer waiting,
He hath died, thy soul to win,
Let His love, thy heart constraining,
Lead thee now to enter in. [Chorus]

4 Just a step, will you not take it,
While in pray'r to God we bow,
Will you not your sins forsaking,
Trust in Christ, and trust him now? [Chorus]

Source: Crowning Glory No. 1: a choice collection of gospel hymns #94

Author: Mary More

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Text Information

First Line: Brother, at the threshold standing
Title: Take the Step
Author: Mary More
Language: English
Refrain First Line: Take the step and yield to God
Publication Date: 1888
Copyright: Public Domain

Timeline

Instances

Instances (1 - 10 of 10)

Bells of Heaven #d47

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Bilhorn's Male Chorus No. l #85

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Crowning Glory No. 1 #94

Gloria in Excelsis #d74

Gloria in Excelsis #486

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Hymni Ecclesiae #430

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Hymns of the Christian Life. No. 3 #179

The Crowning Glory Nos. 1 and 2 #d40

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The Male Chorus No. 1 #29

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Twentieth (20th) Century Songs Part One #117

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