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Text:Hasten, sinner to be wise
Tune:PLEYEL'S HYMN
Composer:Ignaz Pleyel

137. Hasten, sinner to be wise

1 Hasten, sinner, to be wise,
Stay not for the morrow's sun;
Wisdom if thou still despise,
Harder is it to be won.

2 Hasten mercy to implore,
Stay not for the morrow's sun,
Lest thy season should be o'er
Ere this evening's stage be run.

3 Hasten, sinner, to return,
Stay not for the morrow's sun,
Lest thy lamp should fail to burn,
Ere salvation's work is done.

4 Hasten, sinner, to be blessed,
Stay not for the morrow's sun,
Lest perdition thee arrest
Ere the morrow is begun.

Text Information
First Line: Hasten, sinner to be wise
Meter: 7s.
Language: English
Publication Date: 1898
Topic: The Gospel Call; Danger of Delay; Life: Brevity, Uncertainty and Solemnity of (1 more...)
Notes: Now Public Domain. T. Scott, d. 1775.
Tune Information
Name: PLEYEL'S HYMN
Composer: Ignaz Pleyel (1791)
Meter: 7s.
Key: G Major
Notes: Public Domain.



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