The Blood Saves Today

What would a helpless sinner do

Author: C. Austin Miles
Tune: [What would a helpless sinner do]
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1 What would a helpless sinner do
Without the cleansing blood?
To bear his lost condition thro’
To an offended God?

Refrain:
O sinner, do not doubt, it,
You’ll not be sav’d without it,
There’s power in the blood alway,
To wash your ev’ry sin away;
O come in faith, believing,
And pardon, full, receiving,
Without a doubt, you’ll sing and shout,
“The blood saves today.”

2 “There is a fountain filled with blood”
Is just as true today,
And sinners yet “beneath its flood,
Wash all their sins away.” [Refrain]

3 It is the sinner’s hope and plea,
The Church’s cornerstone,
And saint and sinner both may see
Its pow’r and virtue shown. [Refrain]

4 The Christian knows its cleansing pow’r,
His sin-stain to remove;
The sinner may this very hour,
Consent its pow’r to prove. [Refrain]

Source: New Songs of Pentecost No. 2 #71

Author: C. Austin Miles

Charles Austin Miles USA 1868-1946. Born at Lakehurst, NJ, he attended the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and the University of PA. He became a pharmacist. He married Bertha H Haagen, and they had two sons: Charles and Russell. In 1892 he abandoned his pharmacy career and began writing gospel songs. At first he furnished compositions to the Hall-Mack Publishing Company, but soon became editor and manager, where he worked for 37 years. He felt he was serving God better in the gospel song writing business, than as a pharmacist. He published the following song books: “New songs of the gospel” (1900), “The service of praise” (1900), “The voice of praise” (1904), “The tribute of song” (1904), “New songs of the gospel… Go to person page >

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First Line: What would a helpless sinner do
Title: The Blood Saves Today
Author: C. Austin Miles
Language: English
Refrain First Line: O sinner, do not doubt, it
Publication Date: 1917
Copyright: Public Domain

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