Patiently Pleading

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Great is the boundless love of the Savior

Author: Haldor Lillenas
Tune: [Great is the boundless love of the Savior]
Published in 2 hymnals

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Great is the boundless love of the Savior,
And all His mercy is without end;
How can you longer grieve and reject Him?
Quickly admit this wonderful Friend.

Chorus:
Patiently pleading, long interceding,
Jesus is standing at your heart’s door;
No longer grieve Him
Gladly receive Him,
Let Him come in to abide evermore.

Only to ransom, cleanse and redeem you,
Unto this world of sorrow He came;
Long you have spurned His tender entreaties,
Long you have lived in sin and in shame.

Vainly you seek your soul’s satisfaction
Here ‘mid the worldly pleasures of life;
Only in Jesus peace is awaiting,
Only in Him is rest from all strife.

Swiftly the years of mercy are flying,
Soon comes the doom of those who are lost;
Do not persist in longer refusing
Pardoning grace that so much hath cost.

Source: Light and Life Songs No. 3 #9

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Author: Haldor Lillenas

Rv Haldor Lillenas DMus Norway/USA 1885-1959. Born at Stord, near Bergen, Norway, his father sold their 15 acre farm in Norway and emigrated to the U.S., buying a farm in Colton, SD. After he built a sod house, the family (wife and three chldren) also came to SD in 1887. They moved to Astoria, Oregon in 1889, where Lillenas learned English and began writing song lyrics at an early age. In 1900 the family moved again to Roseville, MN, where he worked as a farm laborer and began attending a Lutheran high school at Hawick, MN. He sold a few songs at age 19. At age 21 he began writing more songs, encouraged by some earlier ones becoming popular (“He set me free” was one). His mother died in 1906 and his father returned to ND, but Li… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Great is the boundless love of the Savior
Title:	Patiently Pleading
Author:	Haldor Lillenas
Refrain First Line:	Patiently pleading, long interceding
Copyright:	Public Domain