{"slug": "nothing-but-the-blood-of-jesus", "title": "Nothing but the Blood of Jesus", "first_line": "What can wash away my stain?", "author": "robert-lowry", "author_date": "1876", "foot": "trochaic", "meter": {"pattern": [7, 8, 7, 8], "doubled": false, "refrain": true, "alleluia": false, "irregular": false}, "topics": ["Atonement", "Blood", "Redemption", "Forgiveness"], "scripture": ["Hebrews 9:22", "1 John 1:7", "Revelation 1:5"], "provenance": {"layer": "text", "source": "gospel-hymns-consolidated-1883", "source_kind": "hand_encoded", "pd_basis": "pub_pre_1931", "pd_evidence": "Robert Lowry (1826-1899), words and music, first published in Gospel Music, ed. William H. Doane & Robert Lowry (New York: Biglow & Main, 1876), no. 7. Transcribed syllable by syllable from the dated page image of Gospel Hymns Consolidated, Nos. 1 to 4 (New York: Biglow & Main; Cincinnati: John Church, 1883), no. 332, printed page 303 \u2014 archive.org item hymnsconso00blis, leaf 307 \u2014 which is headed \"Nothing but the Blood of Jesus.\", carries the scripture motto \"Without shedding of blood is no remission.\"\u2014Heb. 9:22, credits \"Rev. Robert Lowry.\" on both sides, prints all SIX stanzas under the staves, and engraves \"Copyright, 1876, by Rev. Robert Lowry\" vertically in the left margin. Collated against the same plates reprinted in Gospel Hymns Nos. 1 to 6 (1894), no. 195, printed page 201 (archive.org gospelhymnsnos1t0000unse_s2j5, leaf 207) and against the words-only Brevier edition of 1895 (archive.org gospelh1t00sank). US public domain: published 1876, and every witness read here is itself pre-1931; the author died in 1899, so it is also PD in life+70 jurisdictions. THE FIRST LINE IS \"What can wash away my stain?\" \u2014 that is what all three dated printings read; the familiar \"my sin\" is a later editorial change and is NOT adopted here. Punctuation follows the 1883 page, which sets em-dashes at the end of the odd lines of stanzas 2-6 and a question mark in stanza 1.", "pd_jurisdictions": {"US": true}, "hymnary_ids": {"text_auth": "what_can_wash_away_my_sin", "total_instances": 656}}, "stanzas": {"1": {"syllabified": "What can wash a -- way my stain? Noth -- ing but the blood of Je -- sus; What can make me whole a -- gain? Noth -- ing but the blood of Je -- sus.", "prose": ["What can wash away my stain?", "Nothing but the blood of Jesus;", "What can make me whole again?", "Nothing but the blood of Jesus."]}, "2": {"syllabified": "For my cleans -- ing this I see\u2014 Noth -- ing but the blood of Je -- sus; For my par -- don this my plea\u2014 Noth -- ing but the blood of Je -- sus.", "prose": ["For my cleansing this I see\u2014", "Nothing but the blood of Jesus;", "For my pardon this my plea\u2014", "Nothing but the blood of Jesus."]}, "3": {"syllabified": "Noth -- ing can for sin a -- tone\u2014 Noth -- ing but the blood of Je -- sus; Naught of good that I have done\u2014 Noth -- ing but the blood of Je -- sus.", "prose": ["Nothing can for sin atone\u2014", "Nothing but the blood of Jesus;", "Naught of good that I have done\u2014", "Nothing but the blood of Jesus."]}, "4": {"syllabified": "This is all my hope and peace\u2014 Noth -- ing but the blood of Je -- sus; This is all my right -- eous -- ness\u2014 Noth -- ing but the blood of Je -- sus.", "prose": ["This is all my hope and peace\u2014", "Nothing but the blood of Jesus;", "This is all my righteousness\u2014", "Nothing but the blood of Jesus."]}, "5": {"syllabified": "Now by this I'll o -- ver -- come\u2014 Noth -- ing but the blood of Je -- sus; Now by this I'll reach my home\u2014 Noth -- ing but the blood of Je -- sus.", "prose": ["Now by this I'll overcome\u2014", "Nothing but the blood of Jesus;", "Now by this I'll reach my home\u2014", "Nothing but the blood of Jesus."]}, "6": {"syllabified": "Glo -- ry! glo -- ry! thus I sing\u2014 Noth -- ing but the blood of Je -- sus; All my praise for this I bring\u2014 Noth -- ing but the blood of Je -- sus.", "prose": ["Glory! glory! thus I sing\u2014", "Nothing but the blood of Jesus;", "All my praise for this I bring\u2014", "Nothing but the blood of Jesus."]}}, "refrain": {"syllabified": "Oh, pre -- cious is the flow That makes me white as snow; No oth -- er fount I know, Noth -- ing but the blood of Je -- sus.", "prose": ["Oh, precious is the flow", "That makes me white as snow;", "No other fount I know,", "Nothing but the blood of Jesus."]}, "license": "The hymn texts and tunes are in the public domain; per-layer provenance is recorded on each record."}