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Text:The Gate is Ajar
Author:Commander Booth-Tucker
Tune:[O sinner, see thy Saviour]
Composer:Catherine Motee Booth-Tucker

71. The Gate is Ajar

1 O sinner, see thy Saviour
At Mercy’s open gate!
O listen to his pleading!
Soon, soon ‘twill be too late!

Refrain:
The gate ajar! O sinner step in!
The gate is ajar for thee!
O wand’rer, afar, it still is ajar!
The gate is ajar for thee!

2 His hands are pierced with nail-marks,
His holy brown with thorns!
Thy sins have caused his anguish,
Thy waywardness he mourns! [Refrain]

3 For thee thy Lord was wounded,
Thy chastisement he bore;
For thee—despised, rejected,—
Holds open heaven’s door! [Refrain]

4 Thy sins he yearns to pardon,
He’ll wash them all away;
The gate ajar he’s holding!
O enter while you may! [Refrain]

Text Information
First Line: O sinner, see thy Saviour
Title: The Gate is Ajar
Author: Commander Booth-Tucker
Refrain First Line: The gate ajar! O sinner step in
Publication Date: 1908
Notes: Public Domain.
Tune Information
Name: [O sinner, see thy Saviour]
Composer: Catherine Motee Booth-Tucker
Notes: Public Domain.



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