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Hymn: Stop poor sinner stop and think (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal

Date: 1871

Compiler: Under direction of the Christian Hymn-Book Committee

Publisher/Printer: Bosworth Chase & Hall

First Line: Stop poor sinner stop and think

Topic: The Gospel Invitations

Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>

Composer: German

Meter: 7s and 6s peculiar

Tune: Amsterdam

Hymn Number: 239

Page Number: 091, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

Stop, poor sinner, top and think,

Before you further go:

Will you sport upon the brink

Of everlasting woe?

On the verge of ruin stop--

Now the friendly warning take--

Stay your footsteps--ere you drop

Into the burning lake.



Say, have you an arm like God,

That you his will oppose?

Fear ye not that iron rod

With which he breaks his foes?

Can you stand in that dread day

Which his justice shall proclaim--

When the earth shall melt away

Like wax before the flame?



Ghastly death will quickly come,

And drag you to his bar:

Then, to hear your awful doom,

Will fill you with despair!

All your sins will round you crowd--

You shall mark their crimson dye--

Each for vengeance crying loud;

And what can you reply?