Now is the acceptable time; now is the day of salvation.
2 Corinthians 6:2
Words: David H. Hine, 1912. Appeared in World-Wide Revival Hymns, edited by W. Elmer Bailey (Findlay, Ohio: W. Elmer Bailey, 1914), number 235.
Music: Osnabrück W. Howard Doane, 1914 (🔊 pdf nwc).
If you know where to get a good photo of Hine (head & shoulders, at least 200×300 pixels),
Away from God, so far away,
Why will you longer from Him stray?
Sin’s weary way you long have trod,
O come today, say yes
to God.
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Say yes
to God, O why delay?
Say yes
to God, O come today;
Fly to His arms, why longer wait?
Tomorrow it may be too late.
Away from God, where hope is dead,
Where peace and joy have from you fled!
Where you are weary and oppressed,
O come to Him for peace and rest.
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Away from God, so faint, so weak,
O come to Him and pardon seek.
’Tis Jesus calls, why longer stay,
While angels wait and Christians pray?
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Away from God, away from home,
Why will you longer from Him roam?
Why will you spurn His pleading cry,
Why will you slight His love and die?
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