Carry Everything to Jesus

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Pray when the days are brightest with gladness

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman
Tune: [Pray when the days are brightest with gladness]
Published in 3 hymnals

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1 Pray when the days are brightest with gladness,
Open then your heart to Jesus;
Pray, too, in hours of sorrow and sadness,
Open then your heart to Jesus.

Refrain:
Carry ev’ry thing to Jesus;
Who a truer friend could be?
Who more good and kind to thee?
Carry ev’ry thing to Jesus;
Pray and He will answer thee.

2 Pray in the time of failure and weakness;
Open then your heart to Jesus;
Strong in thy trust, submissive in meekness,
Open then your heart to Jesus. [Refrain]

3 Pray when the hopes long cherished are failing,
Open then your heart to Jesus;
Pray when the foe, your faith is assailing,
Open then your heart to Jesus. [Refrain]

4 Pray in the dark for help and for guiding,
Open then your heart to Jesus;
In ev’ry hour be trustful, confiding,
Open then your heart to Jesus. [Refrain]

Source: Triumphant Songs No.4 #35

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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:	Pray when the days are brightest with gladness
Title:	Carry Everything to Jesus
Author:	Elisha A. Hoffman
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	Carry everything to Jesus
Copyright:	Public Domain