{"slug": "there-is-power-in-the-blood", "title": "There Is Power in the Blood", "first_line": "Would you be free from your burden of sin?", "author": "lewis-e-jones", "author_date": "1899", "foot": "dactylic", "meter": {"pattern": [10, 9, 10, 8], "doubled": false, "refrain": true, "alleluia": false, "irregular": false}, "topics": ["Atonement", "Blood", "Redemption", "Cleansing", "Invitation"], "scripture": ["Revelation 12:11", "1 John 1:7", "Hebrews 9:22", "1 Peter 1:18-19"], "provenance": {"layer": "text", "source": "tabernacle-hymns-no-2-1921", "source_kind": "hand_encoded", "pd_basis": "pub_pre_1931", "pd_evidence": "Lewis Edgar Jones (1865-1936), words and music, written 1899 at a camp meeting in Mountain Lake Park, Maryland, and first published that year by H. L. Gilmour. Transcribed syllable by syllable from the dated page image of Tabernacle Hymns, No. 2 (Chicago: Tabernacle Publishing Co., 1921), no. 172 \u2014 archive.org item tabernaclehymnsn00chic, leaf 0180 \u2014 which is headed \"172  There is Power In the Blood.\", credits \"L. E. J.\" over the words and \"L. E. Jones.\" over the music, prints all FOUR stanzas interlinear with a written-out chorus and its tenor/bass echo line, and is footed \"Copyright, 1899, by H. L. Gilmour.  Used by permission.\" Collated against a SECOND SCAN of the same 1921 plate (archive.org tabernaclehymnsn02chic, leaf 0178) and against an INDEPENDENT ENGRAVING of the same words and music, \"There is Power in the Blood.\" no. 24 in archive.org greatt00weig, leaf 0028. That third witness is CORROBORATION ONLY and is NOT part of the public-domain case: it carries no date on its title page or preface, and archive.org's catalogue year of 1900 is contradicted by \"COPYRIGHT, 1910, BY MEYER and BROTHER\" printed on its hymn 25. US public domain: the text was published in 1899 and the witness read here is itself pre-1931; Jones died in 1936, so it is also PD in life+70 jurisdictions. PUNCTUATION follows the 1921 page, checked at 4.5x: the plate ends BOTH halves of line 2 with a SEMICOLON (\"There's pow'r in the blood; pow'r in the blood;\") in all four stanzas \u2014 the independent Weigle engraving prints a comma at the first of the two, and that variant is not adopted here. The plate also reads \"free from YOUR burden of sin\" where the Weigle engraving reads \"free from THE burden of sin\", and \"much whit-er THAN snow\" where Weigle reads \"much whit-er, THAN snow\"; the Tabernacle readings ship. Line 4, \"There's wonderful pow'r in the blood.\", is printed ONCE on the plate because it is the same in all four stanzas; it is written out in each stanza here. The plate elides \"power\" to \"pow'r\" throughout (one note, one syllable), which is why line 2 is nine syllables and line 4 eight.", "pd_jurisdictions": {"US": true}}, "stanzas": {"1": {"syllabified": "Would you be free from your bur -- den of sin? There's pow'r in the blood; pow'r in the blood; Would you o'er e -- vil a vic -- to -- ry win? There's won -- der -- ful pow'r in the blood.", "prose": ["Would you be free from your burden of sin?", "There's pow'r in the blood; pow'r in the blood;", "Would you o'er evil a victory win?", "There's wonderful pow'r in the blood."]}, "2": {"syllabified": "Would you be free from your pas -- sion and pride? There's pow'r in the blood; pow'r in the blood; Come for a cleans -- ing to Cal -- va -- ry's tide, There's won -- der -- ful pow'r in the blood.", "prose": ["Would you be free from your passion and pride?", "There's pow'r in the blood; pow'r in the blood;", "Come for a cleansing to Calvary's tide,", "There's wonderful pow'r in the blood."]}, "3": {"syllabified": "Would you be whit -- er\u2014 much whit -- er than snow? There's pow'r in the blood; pow'r in the blood; Sin -- stains are lost in its life -- giv -- ing flow, There's won -- der -- ful pow'r in the blood.", "prose": ["Would you be whiter\u2014much whiter than snow?", "There's pow'r in the blood; pow'r in the blood;", "Sin-stains are lost in its life-giving flow,", "There's wonderful pow'r in the blood."]}, "4": {"syllabified": "Would you do serv -- ice for Je -- sus your King? There's pow'r in the blood; pow'r in the blood; Would you live dai -- ly, His prais -- es to sing? There's won -- der -- ful pow'r in the blood.", "prose": ["Would you do service for Jesus your King?", "There's pow'r in the blood; pow'r in the blood;", "Would you live daily, His praises to sing?", "There's wonderful pow'r in the blood."]}}, "refrain": {"syllabified": "There is pow'r, pow'r, won -- der -- work -- ing pow'r, In the blood of the Lamb; There is pow'r, pow'r, won -- der -- work -- ing pow'r, In the pre -- cious blood of the Lamb.", "prose": ["There is pow'r, pow'r, wonder-working pow'r,", "In the blood of the Lamb;", "There is pow'r, pow'r, wonder-working pow'r,", "In the precious blood of the Lamb."]}, "license": "The hymn texts and tunes are in the public domain; per-layer provenance is recorded on each record."}