Get Right With God Tonight

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Surrender your life to the Savior

Author: Mrs. C. H. Morris
Tune: [Surrender your life to the Savior]
Published in 1 hymnal

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1 Surrender your life to the Savior,
All ye who are weary of sin;
Accept the salvation He offers,
The life of a Christian begin.

Chorus:
O soul, get right with God tonight,
He’ll wash your sin-stained garments white;
For pardon and for cleansing flows
The all atoning blood.
O soul, get right with God tonight,
He’ll wash your sin-stained garments white;
Make no delay, come while you may,
Get right, get right with God.

2 The world and its follies forsaking,
To Jesus throw open the door;
Believe Him, and trust, and obey Him,
And make Him your choice evermore. [Chorus]

3 To life and eternal salvation,
There’s no other way but His way;
So swiftly the moments are flying;
There’s danger and death in delay. [Chorus]

Source: Great Tabernacle Hymns #112

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Author: Mrs. C. H. Morris

Lelia (Mrs. C.H.) Morris (1862-1929) was born in Pennsville, Morgan County, Ohio. When her family moved to Malta on the Muskingum River she and her sister and mother had a millinery shop in McConnelsville. She and her husband Charles H. Morris were active in the Methodist Episcopal Church and at the camp meetings in Sebring and Mt. Vernon. She wrote hymns as she did her housework. Although she became blind at age 52 she continued to write hymns on a 28-foot long blackboard that her family had built for her. She is said to have written 1000 texts and many tunes including "Sweeter as the years go by." Mary Louise VanDyke Go to person page >

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First Line:	Surrender your life to the Savior
Title:	Get Right With God Tonight
Author:	Mrs. C. H. Morris
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	O soul, get right with God tonight
Publication Date:	1916
Copyright:	Public Domain