Let Us Draw Near!

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Let us draw near! The blood is spilt

Author: Edith Margaret Clarkson (1936, rev. 1962)
Published in 3 hymnals

Piano/Organ
	The Lord's Supper (Communion Meditations…

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Author: Edith Margaret Clarkson

Edith Margaret Clarkson was a Canadian hymn writer and author, born June 8, 1915, in Melville, Saskatchewan, and long resident in Toronto. Trained as a teacher, she served for decades in public schools while writing hymns and devotional prose marked by doctrinal clarity and poetic restraint. Early texts include “So Send I You” (1937) and “We Come, O Christ, to Thee” (1946); later she contributed widely sung hymns such as “O Father, You Are Sovereign” and “For Your Gift of God the Spirit,” and published numerous books on the Christian life and suffering. Her work—deeply shaped by Reformed conviction—was commissioned and sung in missionary and ecumenical settings worldwide. Clarkson died in 2008, having been named a Fellow… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Let us draw near! The blood is spilt
Title:	Let Us Draw Near!
Author:	Edith Margaret Clarkson (1936, rev. 1962)
Meter:	88 88 5 Extended
Language:	English
Copyright:	© 1962 Hope Publishing Co.

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Tune

CROSSROADS

MELVILLE (Warren)

ROCKINGHAM (Miller)

Edward Miller (b. Norwich, England, 1735; d. Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, 1807) adapted ROCKINGHAM from an earlier tune, TUNEBRIDGE, which had been published in Aaron Williams's A Second Supplement to Psalmody in Miniature (c. 1780). ROCKINGHAM has long associations in Great Britain and North Amer…

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