Just from the Fountain

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Rejoice with me, rejoice with me

Author: E. A. Hoffman
Tune: [Rejoice with me, rejoice with me]
Published in 1 hymnal

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1 Rejoice with me, rejoice with me,
And praise the Lord today;
For he has saved and ransomed me,
For he has saved and ransomed me,
And washed my sins away,
And washed my sins away.

Chorus:
I have just returned from the fountain,
Where I went to weep and pray;
There I met the precious Savior,
And he washed my sins away,
There I met the precious Savior,
And he Washed my sins away.

2 My weary heart could find no rest
Until to Christ I turned;
He welcomed and bestowed on me,
He welcomed and bestowed on me,
The peace for which I yearned,
The peace for which I yearned. [Chorus]

3 Returning now from Calvary,
Where I had gone to pray,
My heart with praise to Christ is filled,
My heart with praise to Christ is filled,
Who washed my guilt away,
Who washed my guilt away. [Chorus]

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Author: E. A. Hoffman

Elisha Hoffman (1839-1929) after graduating from Union Seminary in Pennsylvania was ordained in 1868. As a minister he was appointed to the circuit in Napoleon, Ohio in 1872. He worked with the Evangelical Association's publishing arm in Cleveland for eleven years. He served in many chapels and churches in Cleveland and in Grafton in the 1880s, among them Bethel Home for Sailors and Seamen, Chestnut Ridge Union Chapel, Grace Congregational Church and Rockport Congregational Church. In his lifetime he wrote more than 2,000 gospel songs including"Leaning on the everlasting arms" (1894). The fifty song books he edited include Pentecostal Hymns No. 1 and The Evergreen, 1873. Mary Louise VanDyke… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Rejoice with me, rejoice with me
Title:	Just from the Fountain
Author:	E. A. Hoffman
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	I have just returned from the fountain
Publication Date:	1883
Copyright:	Public domain.