Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
First Line: Child of sin an sorrow filled with dismay
Topic: The Gospel/Invitations
Writer: T Hastings
Composer:
Meter: 6s and 4s peculiar
Tune:
Hymn Number: 322
Page Number: 201, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsChild of sin and sorrow, filled with dismay,
Wait not for to-morrow, yield thee to-day;
Heaven bids thee come
While yet there's room:
Child of sin and sorrow,
Hear and obey.
Child of sin and sorrow, why wilt thou die?
Come, while thou canst borrow help from on high:
Grieve not that love,
Which from above --
Child of sin and sorrow --
Would bring thee nigh.
Child of sin and sorrow, where wilt thou flee!
Through that long to-morrow, eternity!
Exiled from home,
Darkly to roam --
Child of sin and sorrow,
Where wilt thou flee?
Child of sin and sorrow, lift up thine eye!
Heirship thou canst borrow in worlds on high!
In that high home,
Graven thy name:
Child of sin and sorrow,
Swift homeward fly!