Tell the Story of the Gospel As It Is

Tell the story of the gospel as it is

Author: Haldor Lillenas
Tune: [Tell the story of the gospel as it is]
Published in 2 hymnals

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Representative Text

1 Tell the story of the gospel as it is,
For no changes in its message are required;
Human hearts have not a need as deep as this,
Nothing more by those in sin could be desired.

Refrain:
Tell the story of salvation as it is,
All its ruggedness and beauty do not miss,
Add no color, lend no shade,
No improvement can be made,
Tell the story of the gospel as it is.

2 Tell the story of the manger and the cross,
Tell the tidings of His triumph o’er the grave;
That the cause of Christ may never suffer loss,
Publish to the world that Jesus still can save. [Refrain]

3 Tho’ the time and seasons change the Lord does not,
He remaineth the unchanging, faithful One;
All the fashions of the world may be forgot,
But not so the gospel of God’s blessed Son. [Refrain]

4 If you change it you will rob it of its pow’r,
Let it speak its story as in days of yore;
Then its blessings will descend a mighty show’r,
In the good old-fashioned way as oft before. [Refrain]

Source: Full Gospel Songs #122

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 >

Text Information

First Line: Tell the story of the gospel as it is
Title: Tell the Story of the Gospel As It Is
Author: Haldor Lillenas
Language: English
Refrain First Line: Tell the story of salvation as it is
Publication Date: 1941
Copyright: Public Domain

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