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Text:The Time Is Near
Author:Roswell F. Cottrell
Tune:ANVERTN
Arranger:Lowell Mason
Media:MIDI file

12295. The Time Is Near

1 The time is near when Zion’s sons,
With rapturous joy shall sing the song
Foretold by seers—anointed ones;
We have a city great and strong.

2 Open, ye gates! The glorious King
Approaches with a holy throng.
Open, ye gates! Saints, angels, sing
On golden harps the victor’s song!

3 O righteous nation! enter in,
That kept the law of truth below,
Enter the place, all free from sin,
Where life’s pure waters gently flow.

4 Within these walls shall they remain,
Who trusted, mighty Lord! in Thee:
Death, their last enemy is slain—
They have a right to life’s fair tree.

5 Thus the redeemed to Zion come,
With songs and everlasting joy;
Angelic legions waft them home,
With shouts of praise their harps employ.

Text Information
First Line: The time is near when Zion’s sons
Title: The Time Is Near
Author: Roswell F. Cottrell
Meter: LM
Language: English
Source: Hymns and Tunes (Battle Creek: MI: Steam Press of the Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association, 1876)
Copyright: Public Domain
Tune Information
Name: ANVERTN
Arranger: Lowell Mason (1840)
Meter: LM
Key: E♭ Major
Source: German tune
Copyright: Public Domain



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