I Must Find Christ Tonight

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Deep is the darkness enshrouding my soul

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman
Tune: [Deep is the darkness enshrouding my soul]
Published in 3 hymnals

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1 Deep is the darkness enshrouding my soul;
Oh, for one ray of light!
Lead me to Jesus, I long to be whole,
I must find Christ tonight.

Refrain:
I must find Christ, I must find Christ,
I must find Christ tonight;
I have resolved a new life to begin,
I must find Christ tonight.

2 Long have I know the hard bondage of sin,
Long felt its with’ring blight;
Now I resolve a new life to begin;
I must find Christ tonight. [Refrain]

3 Wrecked on life’s sea, by the wild billows toss’d,
Trembling and sick with fright,
I must have help, or my soul will be lost,
I must find Christ tonight. [Refrain]

Source: Triumphant Songs No.2 #189

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Author: Elisha 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:	Deep is the darkness enshrouding my soul
Title:	I Must Find Christ Tonight
Author:	Elisha A. Hoffman
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	I must find Christ, I must find Christ
Copyright:	Public Domain