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Text:Take My Heart
Author:Anon.
Tune:MOUNT VERNON
Composer:L. Mason

170. Take My Heart

1 Take my heart, O Father, take it!
Make and keep it all Thine own;
Let Thy Spirit melt and break it,
This proud heart of sin and stone.

2 Father, make it pure and lowly,
Fond of peace and far from strife;
Turning from the paths unholy,
Of this vain and sinful life.

3 Ever let Thy race surround me,
Strengthen me with pow'r divine;
By Thy cords of love that bound me,
Make me to be wholly Thine.

4 May the blood of Jesus heal me,
And my sins be all forgiv'n;
Holy Spirit, take and seal me,
Guide me in the path to heav'n.

Text Information
First Line: Take my heart, O Father, take it!
Title: Take My Heart
Author: Anon.
Language: English
Publication Date: 1908
Topic: Call Accepted; Invitation and Repentance: Call Accepted
Notes: Public Domain.
Tune Information
Name: MOUNT VERNON
Composer: L. Mason
Incipit: 87
Key: C Major
Notes: Public Domain.



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