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THE
CONVERTED
THIEF.
C.
M.
D.
"
And
he
said
unto
Jesus,
Lord,
remember
me
when
thou
comest
into
thy
kingdom."-LUKE
23:
42.
Key
of
C
Major.
Bass
and
tenor
Arr by
Wm.
House.
1.
As
on
the
cross
the
Sav-iour
hung,
And
wept,
and
bled,
and
died;
He
poured
sal
-
va
-
tion
on
a
wretch
That
lan-guished
at
his
side.
2.
Je
-
sus,
Thou
Son
and
heir
of
heav'n?
Thou
spot-less
Lamb
of
God!
I
see
Thee
bathed
in
sweat
and
tears,
And
wel-t'ring
in
Thy
blood.
3.
A
-
mid
the
glo
-
ries
of
that
world,Dear
Saviour,
think
on
me,
And
in
the
vic-tories
of
Thy
death
Let
me
a
shar
-
er
be.
His
crimes,
with
in
-
ward
grief
and
shame,
The
pen
-
i
-
tent
con-fessed,
Then
turned
his
dy
-
ing
eyes
to
Christ,
And
thus
his
prayer
ad-dressed.
Yet
quick
-
ly
from
these
scenes
of
woe
In
tri
-
umph
thou
shalt
rise,
Burst
through
the
gloom-y
shades
of
death,
And
shine
a-bove
the
skies.
His
prayer
the
dy
-
ing
Je
-
sus
hears,
And
in
-
stant
-
ly
re-plies,
To
-
day
thy
part
-
ing
soul
shall
be
With
me
in
par
-
a
-
dise.
The
words
of
the
above
hymn
was
taken
from
Mercer's
"
Cluster,"
page
31,
published
in
1828
by
Rev.
Jesse
Mercer,
who
was
a
Georgian,
and
lived
and
died
at
Powellton,
Ga.
This
was
the
third
revised
edition
of
his
book.
Its
title
was
"
Free
Grace
Displayed
on
the
Cross."
It
is
also
in
Lloyd's
(Greenville,
Ala.)
hymn
book,
page
4.
We
have
not
been
able
to
obtain
the
name
of
the
author
of
the
words.
The
music
to
the
above
tune
is
of
long
standing,
but
none
of
the
books
we
have
consulted
give
the
name
of
the
author.
It
appears
in
"
Southern
Harmony,"
by
William
Walker,
1835,
page
5,
and
in
tune
books
of
an
earlier
date
than
this.