Good News

Hear ye the glad good news from heaven

Author: P. P. Bliss
Tune: [Hear ye the glad good news from heaven]
Published in 7 hymnals

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1. Hear ye the glad good news from Heav’n?
Life to a death-doomed race is giv’n!
Christ on the cross for you and me
Purchased a pardon full and free.

Refrain
He that believeth, he that believeth,
He that believeth hath everlasting life;
He that believeth, he that believeth,
He that believeth hath everlasting life.

2. When we were lost, the Son of God
Made an atonement by His blood:
When we the glad good news believe,
Then the atonement we receive. [Refrain]

3. Why not believe the glad good news?
Why still the voice of God refuse?
Why not believe, when God hath said,
All, all our guilt on Him was laid. [Refrain]

Source: The Cyber Hymnal #2341

Author: P. P. Bliss

Philip P. Bliss (b. Clearfield County, PA, 1838; d. Ashtabula, OH, 1876) left home as a young boy to make a living by working on farms and in lumber camps, all while trying to continue his schooling. He was converted at a revival meeting at age twelve. Bliss became an itinerant music teacher, making house calls on horseback during the winter, and during the summer attending the Normal Academy of Music in Genesco, New York. His first song was published in 1864, and in 1868 Dwight L. Moody advised him to become a singing evangelist. For the last two years of his life Bliss traveled with Major D. W. Whittle and led the music at revival meetings in the Midwest and Southern United States. Bliss and Ira D. Sankey published a popular series of hym… Go to person page >

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First Line: Hear ye the glad good news from heaven
Title: Good News
Author: P. P. Bliss
Language: English
Refrain First Line: He that believeth, he that believeth
Notes: German translation: See "Nehmet die frohe Botschaft a" by Ernst Gebhardt
Copyright: Public Domain

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