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The author and composer of the hymn, "My Sins are Blotted Out, I Know", gives his own account of the writing.  Merrill Dunlop says:
It was written in a very few minutes, although only after much deliberation, while I was crossing the Atlantic in 1927 on a liner, The Leviathan, and meditating upon the verses in Micah 7:18, 19 and upon the great dimensions of the sea - the breadth and depth and what the Bible says about our sins - buried in those depths - removed - blotted out!  Then, making it personally, I said: "My sins are blotted out, I know!" The melody came almost simultaneously with the words.  I jotted the chorus down aboard the ship, as I walked the deck.  Later, in Ireland, I added the words and music to the stanzas.  It took hold immediately and quickly spread across America and across the seas.

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What a wondrous message in God's Word! My sins are blotted out, I know
If I trust in His redeeming blood, my sins are blotted out, I know!

chorus:
My sins are blotted out, I know: My sins are blotted out, I know!
They are buried in the depths of the deepest sea:
My sins are blotted out, I know!

Once my heart was black, but now what joy; my sins are blotted out, I know!
I have peace that nothing can destroy; my sins are blotted out, I know!

I shall stand some day before my King; my sins are blotted out, I know!
With the ransomed host I then shall sing: "My sins are blotted out, I know!"
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