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Gather Them In

Gather them in, for there yet is room

Author: Fanny Crosby
Tune: [Gather them in! for yet there is room]
Published in 33 hymnals

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Audio files: MIDI

Representative Text

1 Gather them in, for there yet is room
At the feast that a King has spread;
O gather them in, let His house be filled,
And the hungry and poor be fed.

Refrain:
Out in the highway, out in the by-way,
Out in the dark depths of sin,
Go forth, go forth with a loving heart,
And gather the wand'rers in.

2 Gather them in, for there yet is room;
But our hearts, how they throb with pain,
To think of the many who slight the call
That may never be heard again. [Refrain]

3 Gather them in, for there yet is room,
'Tis a message from God above;
O gather them in to the fold of grace,
And the arms of the Saviour's love. [Refrain]


Source: Joyful Lays: a new collection of songs, prepared and adapted for the Sunday School #53

Author: Fanny Crosby

Pseudonymns: A.V., Mrs. A. E. Andrews, Mrs. E. A. Andrews, Mrs. E. L. Andrews, James L. Black, Henrietta E. Blair, Charles Bruce, Robert Bruce, Leah Carlton, Eleanor Craddock, Lyman G. Cuyler, D.H.W., Ella Dare, Ellen Dare, Mrs. Ellen Douglass, Lizzie Edwards. Miss Grace Elliot, Grace J. Frances, Victoria Frances, Jennie Garnett, Frank Gould, H. D. K., Frances Hope, Annie L. James, Martha J. Lankton [Langton], Grace Lindsey, Maud Marion, Sallie Martin, Wilson Meade, Alice Monteith, Martha C. Oliver, Mrs. N. D. Plume, Kate Smiley, Sallie Smith, J. L. Sterling, John Sterling, Julia Sterling, Anna C. Storey, Victoria Stuart, Ida Scott Taylor, Mary R. Tilden, Mrs. J. B. Thresher, Hope Tryaway, Grace Tureman, Carrie M. Wilson, W.H.D. Frances… Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: Gather them in, for there yet is room
Title: Gather Them In
Author: Fanny Crosby
Language: English
Refrain First Line: Out in the highway, out in the byway
Copyright: Public Domain

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