Are You Washed in the Blood of the Lamb music from Gospel Praise Book A Collection of Choice Gems of Sacred Song by Asa Hull 1880 pg 194

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minister from Pennsylvania; it was first published in ''Spiritual Songs for Gospel Meetings and the Sunday School.'' The song "became a marching song for the Salvation Army."W. K. McNeil, ''Encyclopedia of American Gospel Music'' (2005) p. 188 https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0415941792 The song contains many

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references and allusions, including to: "They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb" from

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7:14. The song has been recorded by many notable recording artists, including Johnny Cash,

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's Dixie Mountaineers in the Bristol Sessions (1927). It can be heard in the Paul Schrader film, First Reformed, as well as the video game

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under the name "Blood of the Lamb"

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