The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the Gospel.
Mark 1:15
Words: A. Rosalthe Carey, 1896.
Music: William J. Kirkpatrick (🔊 pdf nwc).
If you know where to get a good photo of Carey (head & shoulders, at least 200×300 pixels),
It is new, it is new every moment,
Half its marvels have never been told;
This glad message of hope and redemption,
This sweet Gospel that never grows old.
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Tell it over and over,
Tell it over again;
Tell of mercy and love and salvation,
Till all earth shall reply, Amen!
’Tis a message of bounty and mercy,
Full of heart-throbs of love from the throne;
They who quaff at its fountain of promise
Make the glories of Heaven their own.
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It has balm for the wounds of life’s battle,
For the great Healer left it below;
And it tells how the heart, sin makes crimson,
Grows, by faith in His blood, white as snow.
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Happy souls, happy souls that receive it,
They have only to learn and believe;
Just to turn from earth-idols to Jesus,
Keep His word, and salvation receive.
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