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Who your guilt can bear away

Author: Thoro Harris
Tune: [Who your guilt can bear away]
Published in 2 hymnals

Audio files: MIDI

Representative Text

1 Who your guilt can bear away,
Turn your night to glorious day,
help you tread the golden way?
Only One.

Chorus:
He’s the One, the only One
Who can lift you to the throne;
Trust the merits of God’s Son:
He’s the One.

2 Who your spirit can inspire?
Who can quell each vain desire?
Who can lift you high and high’r?
Only One. [Chorus]

3 Who can dissipate the gloom,
Turn away the sinner’s doom,
With his light your soul illume?
Only One. [Chorus]

4 Who can for your sins atone?
Who can keep you all his own,
Make your heart his royal throne?
Only One. [Chorus]

5 Who can wash away the stain
Till no trace of guilt remain,
Help you glory to attain?
Only One. [Chorus]

Source: Light and Life Songs No. 2 #175

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Author: Thoro Harris

Born: March 31, 1874, Washington, DC. Died: March 27, 1955, Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Buried: International Order of Odd Fellows Cemetery, Eureka Springs, Arkansas. After attending college in Battle Creek, Michigan, Harris produced his first hymnal in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1902. He then moved to Chicago, Illinois at the invitation of Peter Bilhorn, and in 1932, to Eureka Springs, Arkansas. He composed and compiled a number of works, and was well known locally as he walked around with a canvas bag full of handbooks for sale. His works include: Light and Life Songs, with William Olmstead & William Kirkpatrick (Chicago, Illinois: S. K. J. Chesbro, 1904) Little Branches, with George J. Meyer & Howard E. Smith (Chicago, Illi… Go to person page >

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