Lord, Forgive!

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If unrepentant you pass away

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman
Tune: [If unrepentant you pass away]
Published in 2 hymnals

Audio files: MIDI

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1 If unrepentant you pass away,
What, sinner, then will you do?
Oh! When you stand in the judgment-day,
What, sinner, then will you do?

Refrain:
Faithless, untrue, what will you do
When that dread day is nearing?
No hope for you, what will you do
When in His presence appearing?

2 When you shall come to your endless doom,
What, sinner, then will you do?
And for your soul, find in heav’n no room,
What, sinner, then will you do? [Refrain]

3 Faithless, unsav’d, and probation o’er,
What, sinner, then will you do?
Far from God’s presence forevermore,
What, sinner, then will you do? [Refrain]

4 Jesus refused, and no arm to save,
What, sinner, then will you do?
Doomed to the darkness beyond the grave,
What, sinner, then will you do? [Refrain]

5 When all the hopes of your life are fled,
What, sinner, then will you do?
When faith and love are forever dead,
What, sinner, then will you do? [Refrain]

Source: Triumphant Songs No.4 #29

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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:	If unrepentant you pass away
Title:	Lord, Forgive!
Author:	Elisha A. Hoffman
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	Faithless, untrue, what will you do
Copyright:	Public Domain