Are You for Jesus?

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Are you for Jesus? express it!

Author: Eden Reeder Latta
Tune: [Are you for Jesus? express it]
Published in 5 hymnals

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1 Are you for Jesus? express it!
Tell it today!
Tell it today!
Be not ashamed to confess it,
Tell it today, today!
Have you your follies forsaken?
Tell it, tell it today!
Truly his cross have you taken,
Tell it, tell it today!

Chorus:
Tell it today, for the Master will hear!
Tell it today, for our hearts it will cheer!
Tell it in weakness, tell it in meekness,
Tell it, tell it today!

2 Are you for Jesus? don’t hide it!
Tell it today!
Tell it today!
What if the world should deride it?
Tell it today, today!
Are you ‘gainst evil contending?
Tell it, tell it today!
Are you on Jesus depending?
Tell it, tell it today! [Chorus]

3 Are you for Jesus? reveal it!
Tell it today!
Tell it today!
Why should you seek to conceal it?
Tell it today, today!
Does the Redeemer confess you?
Tell it, tell it today!
Does he forgive you and bless you?
Tell it, tell it today! [Chorus]

Source: Songs for Work and Worship #162

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Author: Eden Reeder Latta

Rv Eden Reeder Latta USA 1839-1915. Born at Haw Patch, IN, the son of a Methodist minister, (also a boyhood friend of hymn writer Willam A Ogden) he became a school teacher. During the American Civil War he preached for the Manchester Methodist Church and other congregations (possibly as a circuit rider filling empty pulpits). In 1863 he married Mary Elizabeth Wright, and they had five children: Arthur, Robert, Jennie, two others. He taught for the public schools of Manchester, and later Colesburg, IA. He moved to Guttenberg, IA, in the 1890s, and continued writing song lyrics for several major gospel composers, including William Ogden, James McGranahan, James Fillmore, and Edmund Lorenz. He wrote 1600+ songs and hymns, many being wi… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Are you for Jesus? express it!
Title:	Are You for Jesus?
Author:	Eden Reeder Latta
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	Tell it today, for the Master will hear
Copyright:	Public Domain