Words: , in the Amer­i­can Mess­en­ger, 1850. Cook wrote this as a com­pan­ion hymn to Just as I Am.

Music: Con­fi­dence (Cham­ber­lain), , 1870.

If you know G. B. Cham­ber­lain’s full name, or where to get a pic­ture of him or Russ­ell Cook.


Just as thou art, without one trace
Of love, or joy, or inward grace,
Or meetness for the heavenly place,
O guilty sinner, come.

Thy sins I bore on Calvary’s tree;
The stripes, thy due, were laid on Me;
That peace, and pardon might be free;
O wretched sinner, come.

Come, leave thy burden at the cross,
Count all thy gains but empty dross:
My grace repays all earthly loss;
O needy sinner, come.