Near the healing pool, Bethesda, day by day

Near the healing pool, Bethesda, day by day

Author: P. P. Bliss
Tune: [Near the healing pool Bethesda, day by day]
Published in 2 hymnals

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1 Near the healing pool Bethesda, day by day,
Where the gentle breezes thro' the porches play,
Many weak and weary, halt and withered lay,
Waiting for the moving of the water.

Chorus:
Weary waiting at Bethesda's side
For the moving of the healing tide,
Lord, from Thee be all my strength supplied,
While waiting for the moving of the water.

2 So is helpless misery and sin I lie,
Hearing not the footstep of the angel nigh,
Trembling, hoping, fearing lest at last I die,
Waiting for the moving of the water. [Chorus]

3 Jesus knows the mourner's grid and hears his sighs,
Sees the look of anguish and the streaming eyes,
Kindly speaks and bids the weary suff'rer "Rise,"
Waiting for the moving of the water. [Chorus]

4 Loving, Savior, all my weakess Thou dost see,
Still Thy tender mercies, Lord, bestow on me,
Speak the word, and let me stand complete in Thee,
Waiting for the moving of the water. [Chorus]

Source: Minnetonka Songs: for Sabbath Schools, compiled especially for the Minnetonka Sabbath-School Assembly #8

Author: P. P. Bliss

Philip P. Bliss (b. Clearfield County, PA, 1838; d. Ashtabula, OH, 1876) left home as a young boy to make a living by working on farms and in lumber camps, all while trying to continue his schooling. He was converted at a revival meeting at age twelve. Bliss became an itinerant music teacher, making house calls on horseback during the winter, and during the summer attending the Normal Academy of Music in Genesco, New York. His first song was published in 1864, and in 1868 Dwight L. Moody advised him to become a singing evangelist. For the last two years of his life Bliss traveled with Major D. W. Whittle and led the music at revival meetings in the Midwest and Southern United States. Bliss and Ira D. Sankey published a popular series of hym… Go to person page >

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First Line: Near the healing pool, Bethesda, day by day
Author: P. P. Bliss
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

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