Timeless Truths ‎#537

537. The World in Awful Sleep

1 What awful darkness shrouds all the earth!
Hearts sealed in hardness, grope on in death.

Refrain:
Oh, hear the thunder,
Sinner in slumber;
Will you determine to break the spell,
And not abandon your soul to hell?

2 Oh, dreadful picture! Oh, peril’s day!
Sleep, darker, deeper, holds deadly sway. [Refrain]

3 Hell’s breathing stupor, now over all:
Who’ll break the subtle infernal pall? [Refrain]

4 Oh, world of sinners—if not too late—
While hope yet glimmers, flee from your fate. [Refrain]

5 Awake, O sleeper, God help you hear;
Death coils around you, your doom is near. [Refrain]

Text Information

• First Line: What awful darkness shrouds all the earth!
• Title: The World in Awful Sleep
• Author: Daniel S. Warner
• Refrain First Line: Oh, hear the thunder
• Meter: 9.9.5.5.9.9
• Scripture:
  Ephesians 5:14
• Topic: Warning
• Source: Timeless Truths (http://library.timelesstruths.org/music/The_World_in_Awful_Sleep); Faith Publishing House, Echoes from Heaven, 1976 (77); The Gospel Trumpet Company, Select Hymns, 1911 (490)

Tune Information

• Name: [What awful darkness shrouds all the earth]
• Composer: Barney E. Warren (1911)
• Meter: 9.9.5.5.9.9
• Key: F Major
• Source: Timeless Truths (http://library.timelesstruths.org/music/The_World_in_Awful_Sleep); Faith Publishing House, Echoes from Heaven, 1976 (77); The Gospel Trumpet Company, Select Hymns, 1911 (490)