Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal Revised
Date: 1882
Compiler: A I Hobbs et al
Publisher/Printer: Christian Publishing Co
First Line: O turn you O turn you for why will you die
Topic: Gospel/Invitation Hymns
Writer: Josiah Hopkins
Composer: J Hopkins
Meter: 11s
Tune: Expostulation
Hymn Number: 693
Page Number: 258, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsO TURN you! O turn you! for why will you die,
When God in His mercy is coming so nigh?
Now Jesus invites you; the Spirit says, Come,
The brethren are waiting to welcome you home.
How vain the delusion that, while you delay,
Your hearts may grow better by staying away!
Come wretched, come starving, come just as you be;
Here streams of salvation are flowing most free.
Here Jesus is ready your souls to receive;
O how can you question, since now you believe?
Since sin is your burden, why will you not come?
He now bids you welcome--he now says there's room.
In riches, in pleasure, what can you obtain,
To soothe your affliction, or banish your pain?
To bear up your spirit, when summoned to die,
Or waft you to mansions of glory on high?