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The story behind the tibulos, the
story of the anthem. What can you

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forgive me for? What can you
forgive me for? Only Jesus' blood

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and a new heart. Only Jesus' blood, precious is the raudal that

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cleanses all evil. There is no
other spring of Jesus alone the blood upon

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the story of this hymn. Little
is known. It was composed by Robert

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Laury in one thousand eight hundred and
seventy- six. Robert Laury, an

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American Baptist, was born in Philadelphia
on the 12th of March of one thousand

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eight hundred and twenty- six and
died in Plainfield, New Jersey, on

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the 23rd of November of one thousand
eight hundred and ninety- nine. Robert

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Laury graduated from the University of Lewisburgh. In a thousand eight hundred and fifty

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- four. He was a pastor
in Westchester, Pensylvania. In one thousand

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eight hundred fifty- four to one
thousand eight hundred fifty- eight, in

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New York from one thousand eight hundred
fifty- eight to sixty- one,

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in Brooklyn from one thousand eight hundred
fifty- one to sixty- nine,

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in Lewisburgh, Pensylvania, from one
thousand eight hundred sixty- nine to seventy

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- five, and in Plainfield,
New Jersey, from one thousand eight hundred

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seventy- six to eighty- five. He was professor of literature at the

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University of Lewisburgh from one thousand eight
hundred sixty- nine to seventy- five.

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He edited several popular hymnaries and also
wrote several hymns, the best known,

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of which are We will gather in
the river a day of work for

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Jesus and where my homeless son is
tonight. Many of his hymns today are

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remembered and sung in Christian congregations.
Although Robert Laury' s greatest desire was

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to be remembered as a preacher and
write hymns were a secondary task for him.

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It is, last but not least, that it is remembered hundreds of

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years after his death, it is
known that this hymn was presented at a

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congress at Ocean Grove, New Jers. The next hymn is by Robert Lauri,

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translated into Spanish by HW Crahing and
titled What Can Forgive Me