Come to Me

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Come to me, come to me, All for sin opopressed

Author: Edwin Pond Parker
Tune: [Come to me! come to me!] (31553)
Published in 4 hymnals

Author: Edwin Pond Parker

Parker, Edwin Pond, D.D., born at Castine, Maine, Jan. 13, 1836, and educated at Bowdoin College, Maine, and Bangor Theo. Sem., Maine. Entering the Congregational ministry, he became pastor of the Second Church of Christ, Hartford, Conn., Jan. 1860, and has remained there to the present date. Besides editing some Sunday School Hymn and Tune Books, now out of use, he was chief Editor of The Book of Praise . . . (Congregational) . . ., Phila., 1874; and Editor of The Christian Hymnal, Hartford, Conn., 1877, revised ed. 1889. His hymns in common use include:— 1. Blest are they in Christ departed. [Death and Burial.] Dated 1886. In the Christian Hymnal, 1889, and several other collections. 2. Come to Jesus, ye who labour.… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Come to me, come to me, All for sin opopressed
Title:	Come to Me
Author:	Edwin Pond Parker
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	We come, we come, to taste Thy grace
Copyright:	Public Domain