1 No longer from Jesus, no longer I’ll roam,
I’m turning my footsteps to heaven my home;
I’ll take his salvation, so precious and free,
For Calvary’s fountain is flowing for me.
Refrain:
Flowing, flowing for me,
Calvary’s fountain is flowing for me;
Flowing , flowing for me,
That fountain is flowing for me.
2 My sins are like crimson and scarlet, I know,
But Jesus can make my soul “whiter than snow;”
His love is my blessing, his grace is my plea,
For Calvary’s fountain is flowing for me. [Refrain]
3 I’ll tell the sweet story wherever I go,
The numberless mercies that he will bestow;
More loving and earnest, more faithful I’d be,
Since Calvary’s fountain is flowing for me. [Refrain]
4 So happy my heart as I journey along;
I’m learning to sing the first note of the song
That rings thro’ the beautiful mansions of light,
All glory to Jesus, and honor and might. [Refrain]
Source: Sunday-School Praises: prepared especially for use in the Sunday-School #66
Pseudonym: Lidie H. Edmunds.
Eliza Edmunds Hewitt was born in Philadelphia 28 June 1851. She was educated in the public schools and after graduation from high school became a teacher. However, she developed a spinal malady which cut short her career and made her a shut-in for many years. During her convalescence, she studied English literature. She felt a need to be useful to her church and began writing poems for the primary department. she went on to teach Sunday school, take an active part in the Philadelphia Elementary Union and become Superintendent of the primary department of Calvin Presbyterian Church.
Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (… Go to person page >
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