Scripture Verse

Come thou and all thy house into the ark. Genesis 7:1

Introduction

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R. Kelso Carter (1849–1928)

Words & Mu­sic: R. Kel­so Car­ter, in Glad Hal­le­lu­jahs, ed­it­ed by John R. Swe­ney & Will­iam J. Kirk­pat­rick (Phi­la­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia: Tho­mas T. Tasker, 1887), num­ber 18 (🔊 pdf nwc).

Lyrics

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Noah’s Ark
Andrei Ryabushkin (1861–1904)

When judg­ment thun­ders cloud the sky,
And storms are down­ward hurled,
The ark of God comes float­ing by
To save a drown­ing world.

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In the ark, in the ark,
There is room for you and me,
And a re­fuge from the ov­er­whelm­ing flood.
’Tis the day of grace,
Je­sus makes sal­va­tion free,
And there’s safe­ty in the ark of God.

Upon the bil­lows wide and dark,
By rag­ing tem­pests tossed,
The Sav­ior throws His pre­cious ark
Wide op­en for the lost.

Refrain

I’m lost with­out, I’m safe with­in,
To wait I can’t af­ford;
I en­ter, and there shuts me in
The love of Christ the Lord.

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The bow of pro­mise spans the sea,
The roll­ing surg­es cease;
The heav’n­ly dove brings back to me
The ol­ive branch of peace.

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