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I will not leave you comfortless, But if I go away

Author: Mrs. C. H. Morris
Tune: [I will not leave you comfortless] (Morris)
Published in 14 hymnals

Audio files: MIDI

Representative Text

1 “I will not leave you comfortless,”
But if I go away,
Will send the Holy Comforter,
Your royal Guest forevermore,
Abiding day by day.

Refrain:
Has he come to you, to you, to you?
Has the Comforter come to you?
The Lord will reprove the world of sin,
When the Comforter comes to you.

2 Church of the Living God arise
The fullness to receive,
Until the lost in ev’ry place
Shall feel the need of saving grace,
And shall on Christ believe. [Refrain]

3 God’s skies are full of Pentecosts,
For you, for me, for all;
Then let us humbly, boldly press,
Our heritage in Christ possess,
That pow’r from heav’n may fall. [Refrain]

4 Then quickly “back to Pentecost,”
That blessed upper room;
And pray the mighty Lord of Hosts,
To send on us the Holy Ghost,
And tarry till he come. [Refrain]

Source: Hymns of the Comforter #59

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Author: Mrs. C. H. Morris

Lelia (Mrs. C.H.) Morris (1862-1929) was born in Pennsville, Morgan County, Ohio. When her family moved to Malta on the Muskingum River she and her sister and mother had a millinery shop in McConnelsville. She and her husband Charles H. Morris were active in the Methodist Episcopal Church and at the camp meetings in Sebring and Mt. Vernon. She wrote hymns as she did her housework. Although she became blind at age 52 she continued to write hymns on a 28-foot long blackboard that her family had built for her. She is said to have written 1000 texts and many tunes including "Sweeter as the years go by." Mary Louise VanDyke Go to person page >

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First Line:	I will not leave you comfortless, But if I go away
Title:	Back to Pentecost
Author:	Mrs. C. H. Morris
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	Has He come to you, to you, to you?
Copyright:	Public Domain