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<h2>SOFTLY AND TENDERLY JESUS IS CALLING</h2>
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<p align="center"><h3>“He’s calling you!” Mark 10:49</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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<p><img src="./hymns/hymns_img/img_t_h_thompson_wl.jpg" alt="Will Lamartine Thompson (1847-1909)" align="right" hspace="15" vspace="5" width="132.666666666667" height="205.333333333333"><em>Words & Music:</em> <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_t_h_thompson_wl.html" target="_blank">Will Lamartine Thompson</a>, in <em>Sparkling Gems, Nos. 1 and 2</em>, by J. Calvin Bushey (Chicago, Illinois: Will L. Thompson & Company, 1880) </p><p><table><tr><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_mid/mid_t_thompson.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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<p>When evangelist Dwight Moody was on his deathbed, he told Thompson:</p>
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<p>Will, I would rather have written “Softly and Tenderly Jesus is Calling” than anything I have been able to do in my whole life.</p>
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<p>This hymn was sung in the 1985 Academy Award winning movie, “Trip to Bountiful.”</p>
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<p>Softly and tenderly Jesus is calling,<br>
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Calling for you and for me;<br>
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See, on the portals He’s waiting and watching,<br>
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Watching for you and for me.</p>
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<p class="refrain">Refrain</p>
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<p class="refrain">Come home, come home,<br>
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Come home, come home,<br>
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You who are weary, come home;<br>
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Earnestly, tenderly, Jesus is calling,<br>
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Calling, O sinner, come home!</p>
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<p>Why should we tarry when Jesus is pleading,<br>
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Pleading for you and for me?<br>
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Why should we linger and heed not His mercies,<br>
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Mercies for you and for me?</p>
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<p class="refrain">Refrain</p>
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<p>Time is now fleeting, the moments are passing,<br>
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Passing from you and from me;<br>
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Shadows are gathering, deathbeds are coming,<br>
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Coming for you and for me.</p>
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<p class="refrain">Refrain</p>
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<p>O for the wonderful love He has promised,<br>
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Promised for you and for me!<br>
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Though we have sinned, He has mercy and pardon,<br>
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Pardon for you and for me.</p>
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<p class="refrain">Refrain</p>
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