Hymnal: Christian Psalms and Hymns
Date: 1839
Compiler: Walter Scott and Silas Leonard
Publisher/Printer: A S Tilden
First Line: You drowsy souls why sleep you here
Topic: <no topic given>
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
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Meter: CM
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Hymn Number: 513
Page Number: 260, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsYOU drowsy souls, why sleep you here?
Awake, and God obey;
Nothing has half your work to do,
Then why do you delay?
Go to the ants, for one poor grain,
See how they toil and strive;
Yet you who have a heaven t' obtain,
How negligent you live!
You, for whose sake all nature stands,
And stars their courses move-
You for whose guard the angel-bands
Come flying from above.
You, for whom God's dear Son bro't down,
An everlasting good;
How careless to secure that crown,
He purchased with his blood.
Say will you lie thus sluggish still,
And never act your parts?
Still dare to trifle with his will,
And thus deceive your hearts?
Arise, reform, and be baptized,
And wash your sins away;
Let not his Spirit be despised,
His promised reads "To-day."