1 My heart is singing, the bells are ringing
To Christ I’m clinging; He gives me peace.
From chains that bound me, that were around me,
Since Christ has found me I have release.
2 Chorus;
Oh, glory, oh, glory! I’m ever proclaiming the story,
How Jesus has saved me and washed all my sin stains away!
Oh, glory, oh, glory! I’m ever proclaiming the story,
How Jesus has saved me and turned my night to day.
3 To be professing without possessing
Must be distressing, to say the least.
To have salvation, God’s approbation,
No condemnation, is like a feast.
4 Some have a rusty, a dark and dusty,
An old and musty experience.
If wrong they’ righten, their loads would lighten,
Their faces brighten, their joys commence.
5 Oh, stop professing without the blessing;
Begin confessing your Lord divine.
Oh, cease your doubting, begin your shouting,
Your foes be routing; for Jesus shine.
Source: Inspiring Gospel Solos and Duets No. 2 #42
Rv Haldor Lillenas DMus Norway/USA 1885-1959. Born at Stord, near Bergen, Norway, his father sold their 15 acre farm in Norway and emigrated to the U.S., buying a farm in Colton, SD. After he built a sod house, the family (wife and three chldren) also came to SD in 1887. They moved to Astoria, Oregon in 1889, where Lillenas learned English and began writing song lyrics at an early age. In 1900 the family moved again to Roseville, MN, where he worked as a farm laborer and began attending a Lutheran high school at Hawick, MN. He sold a few songs at age 19. At age 21 he began writing more songs, encouraged by some earlier ones becoming popular (“He set me free” was one). His mother died in 1906 and his father returned to ND, but Li… Go to person page >
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