What Hinders?

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What hinders your coming to Jesus

Author: Julia H. Johnston
Tune: [What hinders your coming to Jesus]
Published in 2 hymnals

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1 What hinders your coming to Jesus,
What hinders your coming today?
He offers His grace and His pardon,
Tell Jesus what stands in the way.

Chorus:
What is it that hinders your coming?
You may find this salvation today;
The Saviour is ready and waiting,
O why do you longer delay?

2 If pleasures and earthly enjoyment
Have hindered your coming before,
O tarry no longer but prove Him,
Who offers you joy evermore. [Chorus]

3 The fearful, the troubled and doubting,
May lovingly lean on His breast;
O trust Him who offers salvation,
Come now to His arms and be blest. [Chorus]

4 What hinders your coming to Jesus?
The fear that you may not hold out?
His mercy endureth forever,
O how can you linger in doubt? [Chorus]

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Author: Julia H. Johnston

Julia Harriet Johnston, who was born on Jan. 21, 1849, at Salineville, OH, in Columbiana County. Her father was a minister and he mother was a poet. She began writing when she was nine years old but really started writing verse in high school. She lived in Peoria, Ill. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916) Go to person page >

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First Line:	What hinders your coming to Jesus
Title:	What Hinders?
Author:	Julia H. Johnston
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	What is it that hinders your coming?
Publication Date:	1937
Copyright:	This text may still be under copyright because it was published in 1937.