Art Thou He that Should Come?

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Art Thou He that should come, Or look we for another?

Author: George F. Root
Tune: [Art Thou He that should come] (Root)
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1 Art thou he that should come
Or look we for another?
So John’s disciples said to the Lord,
Who answered by his own true word
The poor imprisoned brother.

2 “Go and show John again,
The blind their sight receiving,
The lame feet walk—the lepers are cleansed,
The deaf ears hear, the dead are raised,
The poor my word believing.”

3 Art thou he that should come
Or look we for another?
‘Tis only he sin’s evils can cure,
‘Tis only he can make thee pure,
My soul; there is no other.

Source: Wondrous Love: A Collection of Songs and Services for Sunday Schools #63

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Author: George F. Root

Root, George F., MUS. DOC, born in Sheffield, Berkshire County, Mass., Aug. 30, 1820. He is much more widely known as a composer of popular music than as a hymn writer. Four of his hymns are in I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs & Solos, 1878. Nos. 16, 100, 293, and 297. A sympathetic biographical sketch, with portrait, is in The Tonic Sol-Fa Reporter, Sep. 1886. He died Aug. 6, 1895. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Art Thou He that should come, Or look we for another?
Title:	Art Thou He that Should Come?
Author:	George F. Root
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain