Don’t Turn Him Away (Chorus)

Don't turn him away

Author: Haldor Lillenas
Published in 1 hymnal

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Don't turn him away!
Don't turn him away!
He has come back to your heart again,
Though you've gone astray;
O how you'll need him to plead your cause
On that great judgment day!
Don't turn the Saviour away from your heart,
Don't turn him away!


Source: The Song Book of the Salvation Army #c11

Author: Haldor Lillenas

Rv Haldor Lillenas DMus Norway/USA 1885-1959. Born at Stord, near Bergen, Norway, his father sold their 15 acre farm in Norway and emigrated to the U.S., buying a farm in Colton, SD. After he built a sod house, the family (wife and three chldren) also came to SD in 1887. They moved to Astoria, Oregon in 1889, where Lillenas learned English and began writing song lyrics at an early age. In 1900 the family moved again to Roseville, MN, where he worked as a farm laborer and began attending a Lutheran high school at Hawick, MN. He sold a few songs at age 19. At age 21 he began writing more songs, encouraged by some earlier ones becoming popular (“He set me free” was one). His mother died in 1906 and his father returned to ND, but Li… Go to person page >

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First Line: Don't turn him away
Title: Don’t Turn Him Away (Chorus)
Author: Haldor Lillenas
Language: English
Publication Date: 1986
Copyright: This text may still be under copyright because it was published in 1986.

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The Song Book of the Salvation Army #c11

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