There Is Cleansing

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There is cleansing, perfect cleansing

Author: Rev. E. A. Hoffman
Tune: [There is cleansing, perfect cleansing]
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1 There is cleansing, perfect cleansing, O soul defiled!
Perfect peace this moment you may know;
Christ will cover all the sins of His trusting child,
And they shall be whiter than the snow.

Whiter than the snow,
Whiter than the snow;
Christ will cover all the sins of His trusting child,
And they shall be whiter than the snow.

2 Are you grieving o’er your guilt and infirmity?
Tell the Saviour your distress and woe!
Though the sins that stain your heart should as scarlet be,
Yet they shall be whiter than the snow.

Whiter than the snow,
Whiter than the snow;
Though the sins that stain your heart should as scarlet be,
Yet they shall be whiter than the snow.

3 Burdened and discourage soul, your redemption see!
To your Saviour in repentance go!
Your transgressions may as red as the crimson be,
Yet they shall be whiter than the snow.

Whiter than the snow,
Whiter than the snow;
Your transgressions may as red as the crimson be,
Yet they shall be whiter than the snow.

Source: Songs of Sovereign Grace #54

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Author: Rev. 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:	There is cleansing, perfect cleansing
Title:	There Is Cleansing
Author:	Rev. E. A. Hoffman
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	Whiter than the snow
Publication Date:	1897
Copyright:	Public Domain