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Have you on the Lord believed?

Author: P. P. Bliss
Tune: [Have you on the Lord believed?]
Published in 24 hymnals

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1 Have you on the Lord believed?
Still there’s more to follow;
Of his grace have you received?
Still there’s more to follow.

Refrain:
More and more, more and more,
Always more to follow;
O his matchless, boundless love!
Still there’s more to follow.

2 Have you felt the Saviour near?
Still there’s more to follow;
Does his blessèd presence cheer?
Still there’s more to follow.

3 O the grace the Father shows!
Still there’s more to follow;
Freely he his grace bestows,
Still there’s more to follow.

Source: The Song Book of the Salvation Army #418

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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:	Have you on the Lord believed?
Title:	More to Follow
Author:	P. P. Bliss
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	More and more, more and more
Notes:	German translation: See "Glaubest du an Gott den herrn" by Ernst Gebhardt, "Hat dir Gott die schuld verzieh'n" by Walter Rauschenbusch
Copyright:	Public Domain

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Notes

Have you on the Lord believed? Fullness of Grace. This hymn arose out of the following circumstances:—"A vast fortune was left in the hands of a minister for one of his poor parishioners. Fearing that it might be squandered if suddenly bestowed upon him, the wise minister sent him a little at a time, with a note saying, “This is thine; use it wisely; there is more to follow.” Hence also the refrain ‘More to follow,’ by which the hymn is known."

-John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

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