You Must Open The Door

Top Media Author Text Info Tune Timeline Page Scans Instances

There's a Savior who stands at the door of your heart

Author: Ina Duley Ogdon
Tune: [There's a Savior who stands at the door] (Rodeheaver)
Published in 19 hymnals

Audio files: MIDI

Representative text cannot be shown for this hymn due to copyright.

See page scan previews below.

Author: Ina Duley Ogdon

Ogdon, Ina Duley. (Rossville, Illinois, 1872--May 18, 1964, Toledo, Ohio). Disciples of Christ. Granddaughter of a Methodist minister, she was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William W. Duley. Married James Ogdon. She wrote: "My father went with my mother to her church after his marriage to her, so I was brought up in the church of the Disciples of Christ." She wrote over three thousand hymns, anthems, cantatas, and miscellaneous verse. Her hymns include "Brighten the corner where you are," 1912; "Carry your cross with a smile," 1916; "My Lord abides;" "When you know Jesus too;" "Tell Jesus;" "Lighten the burden for someone;" "I have been saved," Her first hymn was "Open wide the window." Composer Charles Gabriel wrote, "Loved by thousands who… Go to person page >

^ top

Text Information

Text Information

First Line:	There's a Savior who stands at the door of your heart
Title:	You Must Open The Door
Author:	Ina Duley Ogdon
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	You must open the door
Publication Date:	1934
Copyright:	© 1934, renewal 1962 by Homer A. Rodeheaver