Red Book Devotions: Are you looking for the fullness?

Recently I’ve been turning to hymn books as part of my personal devotion time. Many of the old hymns I know, but there are also many I’ve never sung and don’t know.

In addition to meditating on the hymns, I decided to see if I could find them on YouTube. Here is one I was reading and listening to today.

The author of the hymn is Mrs C.H, Morris

According to hymnary . Org:

“Lelia (Mrs. C.H.) Morris (1862-1929) was born in Pennsville, Morgan County, Ohio. When her family moved to Malta on the Muskingum River she and her sister and mother had a millinery shop in McConnelsville. She and her husband Charles H. Morris were active in the Methodist Episcopal Church and at the camp meetings in Sebring and Mt. Vernon. She wrote hymns as she did her housework. Although she became blind at age 52 she continued to write hymns on a 28-foot long blackboard that her family had built for her. She is said to have written 1000 texts and many tunes including "Sweeter as the years go by."

ARE you looking for the ful-ness of the blessing of the Lord In your heart and life to-day?

Claim the promise of your Father, come according to His word, In the blessed old-time way.

He will fill your heart to-day to over

As the Lord Commandeth you, " Bring your vossels, not a few " ;

He will fill your heart to-day to over-

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With the Holy Ghost and power.

2 Bring your empty earthen vessels, clean through Jesus' precious blood,

Come, ye needy, one and all;

And in human consecration wait before the throne of God, Till the Holy Ghost shall fall.

3 Like the cruse of oil, unfailing is His grace for evermore, And His love unchanging still;

And according to His promise with the Holy Ghost and power, He will every vessel fill.

Listen to the song on YouTube