The Cyber Hymnal ‎#938

938. Come Believing!

1 Once again the Gospel message
From the Savior you have heard;
Will you heed the invitation?
Will you turn and seek the Lord?

Refrain:
Come believing! come believing!
Come to Jesus! look and live!
Come believing! come believing!
Come to Jesus! look and live!

2 Many summers you have wasted,
Ripened harvests you have seen;
Winter snows by spring have melted,
Yet you linger in your sin. [Refrain]

3 Jesus for your choice is waiting;
Tarry not: at once decide!
While the Spirit now is striving,
Yield, and seek the Savior’s side. [Refrain]

4 Cease of fitness to be thinking;
Do not longer try to feel;
It is trusting, and not feeling,
That will give the Spirit’s seal. [Refrain]

5 Let your will to God be given,
Trust in Christ’s atoning blood;
Look to Jesus now in Heaven,
Rest on His unchanging Word. [Refrain]

Text Information

• First Line: Once again the Gospel message
• Title: Come Believing!
• Author: Daniel Webster Whittle (1881)
• Refrain First Line: Come believing! come believing!
• Language: English
• Source: Gospel Hymns No. 4, by James McGranahan et al. (New York: Biglow & Main Company, 1881).
• Copyright: Public Domain
• Notes: A lawyer from the West sank so low as to be­come a tramp on the streets of New York. He was fif­ty-four years old and a home­less, pen­ni­less wretch. As he stum­bled by the Flor­ence Mis­sion one night the win­dows were open and he stopped a mo­ment to list­en to the sing­ing…It came like the voice of God to him. His ear­ly train­ing had been Chris­tian, and he thought he would go in. He did so, and as he took his seat, they were sing­ing the se­cond verse…He real­ized that this was a truth­ful pic­ture of his own life, and list­ened to the third verse…Deep­ly con­vict­ed, he jumped to his feet and said, I will yield, I will seek the Sav­ior’s side. He was con­vert­ed, and at­tend­ed the meet­ings reg­u­lar­ly. He se­cured good em­ploy­ment, wrote to his fam­i­ly, and be­com­ing re­con­ciled to his wife and child­ren, he re­turned West to the old home, where he lived as an ear­nest Chris­tian. Sankey, p. 125-6

Tune Information

• Name: [Once again the Gospel message]
• Composer: James McGranahan
• Incipit: 12335 11723 43453
• Key: G Major