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Hymn: While life prolongs its precious light (FL)

Hymnal: New Christian Hymn and Tune Book

Date: 1882

Compiler: Fillmore Brothers

Publisher/Printer: Fillmore Brothers

First Line: While life prolongs its precious light

Topic: <no topic given>

Writer: Timothy Dwight

Composer: Lowell Mason

Meter: LM

Tune: Ward

Hymn Number: 181

Page Number: 061, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

WHILE life prolongs its precious light,

Mercy is found, and peace is given;

But soon, ah! soon, approaching night

Shall blot out every hope of heaven.



While God invites, how blest the day!

How sweet the gospel's charming sound!

Come, sinners, haste, O haste away,

While yet a pardoning God is found.



Soon, borne on time's most rapid wing

Shall death command you to the grave

Before his bar your spirits bring,

And none be found to hear or save.



Now God invites: how blest the day!

How sweet the gospel's charming sound!

Come, sinners, haste, O haste away,

While yet a pardoning God is found.