Text:Is this the kind return
Tune:EXPIATION
Composer:Dr. Green

31b. Is this the kind return

1 Is this the kind return,
Are these the thanks we owe,
Thus to abuse eternal love,
Whence all our blessings flow?

2 To what a stubborn frame
Has sin reduced our mind!
What strange rebellious wretches we,
And God as strangely kind!

3 Turn, turn us, mighty God!
And mould our souls afresh;
Break, sovereign grace, these hearts of stone,
And give us hearts of flesh.

Text Information
First Line: Is this the kind return
Publication Date: 1870
Notes: Now Public Domain. Tune for 201, 229, 258, and 313 in "American Sunday School Hymn Book" (ASS1860a)
Tune Information
Name: EXPIATION
Composer: Dr. Green
Meter: S. M.
Key: f minor
Notes: Public Domain.



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