Hymnal: Psalms Hymns and Spiritual Songs
Date: 1853
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: A Campbell
First Line: Delay not delay not O sinner draw near
Topic: Evangelizing and Recruiting Songs
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: 11s
Tune:
Hymn Number: Song 215
Page Number: 305, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsDELAY not, delay not, O sinner, draw near,
The waters of life are now flowing for thee;
No price is demanded, the Saviour is here,
Redemption is purchas'd--salvation is free.
Delay not, delay not! why longer abuse
The love and compassion of Jesus our Lord!
A fountain is open'd; how canst thou refuse
To wash and be cleans'd in his pardoning blood?
Delay not, delay not! O sinner, to come;
For mercy still lingers, and calls thee to-day;
Her voice is not heard in the vale of the tomb;
Her message, unheeded, will soon pass away.
Delay not, delay not! the Spirit of grace,
Long griev'd and resisted, entreats thee to come;
Beware, lest in darkness thou finish thy race,
And sink to the vale of eternity's gloom.
Delay not, delay not! the hour is at hand,
The earth shall dissolve and the heavens shall fade,
The dead, small and great, in the judgment shall stand;
What pow'r, then, O sinner, shall lend thee its aid?