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Only one soul for Jesus

Author: Flora Kirkland
Tune: [Only one soul for Jesus]
Published in 4 hymnals

Audio files: MIDI

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1 Only one soul for Jesus!
Think not ‘tis only one,
Count not your harvest scanty;
Grieve not at set of sun;
Think of the joy in heaven!
Think what that one soul cost!
Think of the endless sorrow
If that one soul were lost.

Refrain:
Hark! hark! angelic hosts are singing
A song of joy untold;
One soul redeemed! one life reclaimed!
One more new name enrolled.

2 Ye who would be soul winners,
Gather them one by one,
Heart to heart work is needed,
Do as your Lord hath done;
Think of that weary journey
Under a noontide sun;
Think how your Master labored,
Seeking to save just one. [Refrain]

3 Only one soul for Jesus!
Think what one voice may say,
Leading perhaps a hundred
Into the better way!
Think of the deeds of mercy
One redeemed life may do;
Think of the songs in heaven!
You should be singing, too! [Refrain]

Source: The Kingdom of Praise #4

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Author: Flora Kirkland

Flora Kirkland was born in 1862 in Kentucky, before moving to Brooklyn, New York. After graduating from school she became a public school teacher for the seventh grade. She was a member of Tompkins Avenue Congregational Church for which she wrote a number of hymns. She was very active in the Wallabout Bay Mission in that neighborhood of Brooklyn. Most of Wallabout Bay would be filled in to make way for the Brooklyn Navy Yard. She died 17 January 1911. Brooklyn Standard Union, 16 January 1911 Go to person page >

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First Line:	Only one soul for Jesus
Title:	Only One
Author:	Flora Kirkland
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	Hark, hark, angelic hosts are singing
Copyright:	Public Domain