Jesus, our Lord, make no delay

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Jesus, our Lord, make no delay

Tune: MANOAH (Greatorex)
Published in 3 hymnals

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1 Jesus, our Lord, make no delay
To meet us with thy love;
Drive interposing clouds away,
And make our guilt remove.

2 What do we here without thy grace,
O blessed Lamb of God?
'Twill be a dark and tiresome place
Unless we feel thy word.

3 Come in with power to every soul,
O thou immortal Dove;
Make every wounded spirit whole
With thy redeeming love.

4 We long to meet our God to-day,
And taste his grace divine;
That every soul with joy may say,
"My Lord, my God, I'm thine."

Source: The Seventh-Day Adventist Hymn and Tune Book: for use in divine worship #8

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MANOAH (Greatorex)

MANOAH was first published in Henry W. Greatorex's Collection of Psalm and Hymn Tunes (1851). This anthology (later editions had alternate titles) contained one of the best tune collections of its era and included thirty-seven original compositions and arrangements by compiler Greatorex as well as m…

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