Introduction
Words: Josephine Pollard, in Fruits and Flowers, edited by W. Walker (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: J. B. Lippincott, 1870).
Music: Hubert P. Main (🔊 pdf nwc).
(1834–1892)
Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.
Matthew 7:13–14
Words: Josephine Pollard, in Fruits and Flowers, edited by W. Walker (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: J. B. Lippincott, 1870).
Music: Hubert P. Main (🔊 pdf nwc).
I stood outside the gate,
A poor, wayfaring child;
Within my heart there beat
A tempest loud and wild;
A fear oppressed my soul,
That I might be too late;
And oh, I trembled sore,
And prayed outside the gate,
And prayed outside the gate.
Oh, Mercy!
loud I cried,
Now give me rest from sin!
I will,
a voice replied;
And Mercy let me in;
She bound my bleeding wounds,
And soothed my heart oppressed;
She washed away my guilt
And gave me peace and rest,
And gave me peace and rest.
In Mercy’s guise I knew
The Savior long abused,
Who often sought my heart,
And wept when I refused;
Oh! what a blest return
For all my years of sin!
I stood outside the gate,
And Jesus let me in,
And Jesus let me in.