Make Me White as Snow

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I come, O Lord, in penitence

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman
Tune: [I come, O Lord, in penitence]
Published in 2 hymnals

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1 I come, O Lord, in penitence,
With trembling and with tears;
My breaking heart a shelter seeks
From all its doubts and fears;
An erring one, I bring to thee
My sin, and guilt, and woe;
Oh, wash me in thy cleansing blood,
And make me white as snow.

Refrain:
Oh, wash me in thy cleansing blood,
And make me white as snow;
Oh, wash me in thy cleansing blood,
And make me white as snow.

2 I come in joy and hopefulness,
With confidence of soul,
That thou wilt kindly welcome me,
And save and make me whole;
For multitudes have found thy heart
A fount of love and grace;
And so in loving trust and faith
I come to seek thy face. [Refrain]

3 I come and plead compassion, Lord!
Oh, hear me while I pray;
And seal my pardon in the blood
That washes guilt away!
Is not thy mercy rich and free?
And wilt thou not forgive?
May not a sinner trust in thee,
And then forever live? [Refrain]

Source: Triumphant Songs No.1 #123

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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:	I come, O Lord, in penitence
Title:	Make Me White as Snow
Author:	Elisha A. Hoffman
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	O, wash me in Thy cleansing blood
Copyright:	Public Domain