Good News for You

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I was standing all alone at the street corner, ankle deep in snow, hardly knowing where to go, or how to spend the evening. Just then, about a dozen young men appeared at the opposite corner, formed themselves into a circle, and began to sing. I was always fond of singing, so I walked across to listen. They were singing the hymn, “O, I have got good news for you,” and they sang it that night splendidly. The last line of the chorus, “With happy saints above,” went to my heart. I was not “happy”; I knew that I was not a “saint.”
I followed the little company to the schoolroom, and there I was told the way of life, and sang with them for the first time “My Great Redeemer’s Song.”
Reader, have you? Can you call the Lord Jesus your Redeemer?
O, I have got good news for you,
A story wonderful and true;
‘Twill make you happy, that I know,
It made me glad, and now I go
To sing my great Redeemer’s song,
With the happy saints above.
I once was far away from God,
On ruin’s dark and fatal road,
And little dream’d I’d see the day
When I should tread the narrow way.
O’er this wild waste I loved to roam,
My back to God and heaven and home,
When Jesus met me, far astray,
And beckoned me to come away.
He said on Calv’ry’s cross He died
A sacrifice for sin was made 
And all because He loved me so;
Then how could I do else than go.
Now, every one that’s standing by,
O, ‘twas for you the Christ did die:
This moment, too, He waits for thee;
Then just believe, and you’ll be free.
Whene’er the record you believe,
You life eternal shall receive;
And soon, from pain and sorrow free,
You’ll join that glorious company.
To sing the great Redeemer’s song,
With the happy saints above.
TRUST IN HIM AT ALL TIM ES
O trust my Saviour, my precious Saviour!
He died for you as well as me;
He’ll keep you ever, forsake you never,
He’ll make you glad eternally.
ML 03/31/1968