Still Saying No

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Still saying No to Jesus, still you reject his voice

Author: Haldor Lillenas
Tune: [Still saying No to Jesus!]
Published in 4 hymnals

Audio files: MIDI

Representative Text

1 Still saying No to Jesus!
Still you reject His voice;
Still, while the years are passing,
Still making sin your choice.

Chorus:
Still saying No!
Still saying No!
Soon from your heart the Savior will go;
Still saying No!
Still saying No!
Jesus is pleading—but you are still saying No!

2 Still saying No to Jesus!
Still you refuse His love;
Slighting the Holy Spirit,
Grieving the wooing Dove. [Chorus]

3 Still saying No to Jesus!
Still, while in youth and pow’r
Spurning this great salvation,
Wasting each precious hour. [Chorus]

4 Still saying No to Jesus!
Still, tho’ the locks are gray,
Still while the years are fleeting,
Never an hour to pray. [Chorus]

5 Still saying No to Jesus!
Drawing your latest breath,
Still, you reject His mercy,
E’en in the hour of death. [Chorus]

Source: Light and Life Songs No. 2 #63

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Author: Haldor Lillenas

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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