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<title>BLB Hymns</title>
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<h2>O JESUS, THOU ART STANDING</h2>
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<p align="center"><h3>“I stand at the door and knock.” Revelation 3:20</h3></p>
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<center><b>Hymns Supplied Through the Gracious Generosity<br>of the </b><a href="http://www.hymntime.com/tch/" target = "_blank"><b>Cyber Hymnal Website</b></a><br><br><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/cyberhymnal_info.html" target = "_blank">Information about Cyber Hymnal Website</a></center>
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<td><img src="./hymns/hymns_img/img_h_o_how_ww.jpg" alt="William Walsham How (1823-1897)" width="112.666666666667" height="180.666666666667"></td>
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<td><em>Words:</em> <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_h_o_how_ww.html" target="_blank">William Walsham How</a>, 1867.
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<p><em>Music:</em> “St. Edith (St. Hilda),” <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_k_n_knecht_jh.html" target="_blank">Justin Heinrich Knecht</a>, 1799, and Edward Husband, 1871 </p><p><table><tr><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_mid/mid_s_t_stedith.mid" target = "_blank"><img border=0 src="./hymns/hymns_img/notes.gif"><br><b>Play MIDI</b></a></td><td> </td><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/score_info.html" target = "_blank"><b>Link to obtain<br>musical score info</b></a></td></tr></table></p>
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<td><img src="./hymns/hymns_img/img_k_n_knecht_jh.jpg" alt="Justin Heinrich Knecht (1752-1817)" width="132.666666666667" height="176"></td>
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<p>How wrote of this hymn:</p>
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<p>I composed the hymn early in 1867, after I had been reading a very beautiful poem, entitled, “Brothers and a Sermon.” The pathos of the verses impressed me very forcibly at the time. I read them over and over again, and finally, closing the book, I scribbled on an old scrap of paper my first idea of the verses, beginning, “O Jesus, Thou art standing.” I altered them a good deal subsequently, but I am fortunate in being able
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to say that after the hymn left my hands it was never revised or altered in any way.</p>
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<p>O Jesus, Thou art standing, outside the fast closed door,<br>
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In lowly patience waiting to pass the threshold o’er:<br>
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Shame on us, Christian brothers, His Name and sign who bear,<br>
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O shame, thrice shame upon us, to keep Him standing there!</p>
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<p>O Jesus, Thou art knocking; and lo, that hand is scarred,<br>
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And thorns Thy brow encircle, and tears Thy face have marred:<br>
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O love that passeth knowledge, so patiently to wait!<br>
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O sin that hath no equal, so fast to bar the gate!</p>
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<p>O Jesus, Thou art pleading in accents meek and low,<br>
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“I died for you, My children, and will you treat Me so?”<br>
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O Lord, with shame and sorrow we open now the door;<br>
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Dear Savior, enter, enter, and leave us nevermore.</p>
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