If You Will

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You may help to save many souls from sin

Author: James Rowe
Tune: [You may help to save many souls from sin]
Published in 4 hymnals

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1 You may help to save many souls from sin,
If you will, if you will;
You may help the false to be true and win,
If you will, if you only will.

Refrain:
If you will,
You may rescue souls from sin and
Lead the lost ones in,
If you will;
You may bring the sad and lone to Jesus

2 You may bear the light into valleys drear,
If you will, if you will;
You may soothe the bosom and dry the tear,
If you will, if you only will. [Refrain]

3 You may cheer the sad with a happy song,
If you will, if you will;
You may raise the fallen and make them strong,
If you will, if you only will. [Refrain]

4 You may grow in beauty and strength and love,
If you will, if you will;
You may wear the life-crown with saints above,
If you will, if you only will. [Refrain]

Source: Songs of Grace and Glory: A New and Inspiring Selection of Sacred Songs for Evangelical Use and General Worship #73

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Author: James Rowe

Pseudonym: James S. Apple. James Rowe was born in England in 1865. He served four years in the Government Survey Office, Dublin Ireland as a young man. He came to America in 1890 where he worked for ten years for the New York Central & Hudson R.R. Co., then served for twelve years as superintendent of the Mohawk and Hudson River Humane Society. He began writing songs and hymns about 1896 and was a prolific writer of gospel verse with more than 9,000 published hymns, poems, recitations, and other works. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916) Go to person page >

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Text Information

First Line:	You may help to save many souls from sin
Title:	If You Will
Author:	James Rowe
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	If you will, you may rescue souls from sin
Copyright:	Public Domain