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Text:Are You Ready?
Author:J. Wenhaupt Slaughenhaupt
Tune:[Soon the evening shadows falling]
Composer:Edmund Simon Lorenz
Media:MIDI file

9069. Are You Ready?

1 Soon the evening shadows falling
Close the day of mortal life;
Soon the hand of death appalling
Draws thee from its weary strife.

Refrain:
Are you ready? Are you ready?
’Tis the Spirit calling, why delay?
Are you ready? Are you ready?
Do not linger longer, come today.

2 Soon the awful trumpet sounding
Calls thee to the judgment throne;
Now prepare, for love abounding
Yet has left thee not alone. [Refrain]

3 Oh, how fatal ’tis to linger!
Art thou ready—ready now?
Ready, should death’s icy finger
Lay its chill upon thy brow? [Refrain]

4 Priceless love and free salvation
Freely still are offered thee;
Yield no longer to temptation,
But from sin and sorrow flee. [Refrain]

Text Information
First Line: Soon the evening shadows falling
Title: Are You Ready?
Author: J. Wenhaupt Slaughenhaupt (1878)
Refrain First Line: Are you ready? Are you ready?
Language: English
Source: Francis Murphy's Gospel Temperance Hymnal by Jeremiah E. Rankin and Edmund S. Lorenz (New York: A. S. Barnes & Company, 1878)
Copyright: Public Domain
Tune Information
Name: [Soon the evening shadows falling]
Composer: Edmund Simon Lorenz
Key: E♭ Major
Copyright: Public Domain



Media
Adobe Acrobat image: PDF
MIDI file: MIDI
Noteworthy Composer score: Noteworthy Composer Score

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