Tears will not save me

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Tears will not save me

Author: E. A. Hoffman
Tune: [Tears will not save me! I'll cease then my weeping]
Published in 3 hymnals

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1 Tears will not save me! I'll cease then my weeping,
The stains of my sins lie too deep on my soul,
I'll flee to my Saviour whose warm heart is leaping
To welcome, forgive and to make me whole.

Chorus:
Jesus can save and Jesus alone,
Jesus alone, Jesus alone,
Jesus, my Lord and my Saviour, I own,
Jesus, my Saviour, I own.

2 Works will not save me! I'll cease then to trust them,
Too long I have trusted in what I have done,
I'll come in my weakness to one who invites me,
And offers free pardon in His dear Son. [Chorus]

3 Jesus can save me, My glorified Saviour!
The blood that he shed as atonement for sin,
Alone has the power to wash my defilement,
This only can make me all pure within. [Chorus]

Source: The Evergreen: songs for the Sunday school, sanctuary and home circle #14

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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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