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Text:Where Are the Harvesters?
Author:Mary D. James
Tune:[Lo! the ripen'd grain is waving]
Composer:Asa Hull

18. Where Are the Harvesters?

1 Lo! the ripen’d grain is waving,
Ready for the harvest hands;
Calling loudly for more lab’rers,
See! the blessed Master stands.

Chorus:
Who is ready for the harvest?
Who will work for dying souls today?
Who will speak for the blessed Master?
Who will labor, watch, and pray?

2 Who is ready to obey Him?
Who, responsive to His word,
Now will go into the harvest,
Glad to labor for their Lord? [Chorus]

3 Workers, see, your Lord is standing,
Looking with benignant smile;
Watching all your faithful labors,
Giving you good cheer the while! [Chorus]

4 Say, is not the work a pleasure?
Is not toil a present joy?
Is not labor rest, when Jesus
Smiles upon your blest employ? [Chorus]

5 Who can tell the wealth of blessing,
Crowning that rich “harvest-home,”
When within the heavenly portals,
All the faithful lab’rers come? [Chorus]

6 O, the rapture!, O, the glory!
O, the wondrous feast of love!
When the sowers and the reapers
Gather in their house above. [Chorus]

Text Information
First Line: Lo! the ripen'd grain is waving
Title: Where Are the Harvesters?
Author: Mary D. James
Refrain First Line: Who is ready for the harvest
Language: English
Publication Date: 1885
Topic: Christian Work; Missionary
Notes: Public Domain.
Tune Information
Name: [Lo! the ripen'd grain is waving]
Composer: Asa Hull
Notes: Public Domain.



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