Losing Your Soul

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You are losing your soul

Author: Thoro Harris
Tune: [You are losing your soul]
Published in 2 hymnals

Audio files: MIDI

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1 You are losing your soul,
Sadly missing the goal,
You are hopelessly drifting away,
Blindly wand’ring from God
On a treacherous road,
You are far from his kingdom today.

Chorus:
Yet Christ intercedes
In heav’n above,
He tenderly pleads,
Like wooing dove,
Supplying your needs
In kindly love;
O cease from your drifting away!

2 You remember the hour
When the Spirit of pow’r
Touched your lips with his finger of grace,
When he names you his own,
When your heart was his throne,
And you gazed on God’s reconciled face. [Chorus]

3 Now you stumble along;
From your life all the song
Has departed, and gladness takes wing;
You are leading no one
To the feet of God’s Son,
You are false to your Savior and King! [Chorus]

4 You are doomed to be cast
With the vilest at last,
And the fate of the guilty to share,
From God’s presence to hide,
And eternally bide
In the regions of hopeless despair! [Chorus]

5 With the ages in view,
Is it nothing to you
That the Master is calling you home?
Can you turn from the light
Into darkness tonight,
From his mercy forever to roam? [Chorus]

Source: Light and Life Songs No. 2 #22

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Author: Thoro Harris

Born: March 31, 1874, Washington, DC. Died: March 27, 1955, Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Buried: International Order of Odd Fellows Cemetery, Eureka Springs, Arkansas. After attending college in Battle Creek, Michigan, Harris produced his first hymnal in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1902. He then moved to Chicago, Illinois at the invitation of Peter Bilhorn, and in 1932, to Eureka Springs, Arkansas. He composed and compiled a number of works, and was well known locally as he walked around with a canvas bag full of handbooks for sale. His works include: Light and Life Songs, with William Olmstead & William Kirkpatrick (Chicago, Illinois: S. K. J. Chesbro, 1904) Little Branches, with George J. Meyer & Howard E. Smith (Chicago, Illi… Go to person page >

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First Line:	You are losing your soul
Title:	Losing Your Soul
Author:	Thoro Harris
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	Yet Christ intercedes
Publication Date:	1914
Copyright:	Public Domain