Come to Jesus, Weary Soul

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Come to Jesus, weary soul, He is waiting to forgive

Author: E. A. Hoffman
Tune: [Come to Jesus, weary soul] (Hoffman)
Published in 2 hymnals

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1 Come to Jesus, weary soul,
He is waiting to forgive;
Do you doubt his love and grace?
Can you not his word believe?

Refrain:
Has he not promised your sins to forgive?
Is he not faithful and true?
Christ never turned a poor sinner away;
Lo! there is mercy for you.

2 Come to Jesus, and for sin
There a perfect cleansing find;
He is full of truth and grace,
He is merciful and kind. [Refrain]

3 Come to Jesus, burdened one,
While he is so very nigh;
Cast away your doubts and fears,
For he now is passing by. [Refrain]

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Author: 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:	Come to Jesus, weary soul, He is waiting to forgive
Title:	Come to Jesus, Weary Soul
Author:	E. A. Hoffman
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	Has He not promised your sins to forgive?
Copyright:	Public Domain