How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!
Romans 10:15
Words & Music: Leroy J. Boggs, in National Tidings of Joy, edited by David E. Dortch (Nashville, Tennessee: National Baptist Publishing Board, 1878), number 8 (🔊 pdf nwc).
If you know where to get a good photo of Boggs (head & shoulders, at least 200×300 pixels),
Go spread the tidings far and wide,
Search out and bring the wand’rer home;
Go tell the world that Jesus died
To save and comfort all who mourn.
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Jesus died for all, Jesus died for all,
Jesus died for all,
Jesus died for each, for every one.
Go spread it in the distant fields,
The news, the glorious news make known,
Till every sinner stops and yields
To Him who wondrous things hath done.
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Go spread it, children, in your hearts,
Tell all that you have found the way;
The way the word of God imparts
To reach the shores of endless day.
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