Come Home as You Are

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Come home as you are, who wander afar

Author: J. L. Scott
Tune: [Come home as you are, who wander afar]
Published in 2 hymnals

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1 Come home as you are, who wander afar
In the fields of folly and sin.
Thy Father doth yearn to hail thy return
And bid thee a welcome within.

Refrain:
Then hasten away, O brother, today,
Thy Father is waiting for thee;
In thy storm beaten face, His own features trace
My son, forever with me.

2 The table is spread with bounties and bread,
Enough for thee and to spare;
And the husks of the swine will never be thine
While under His fatherly care. [Refrain]

3 The door is ajar, for all who afar
In sin have wander’d astray;
And the Father’s sweet smile, awaits thee awhile;
Then hasten, O hasten away. [Refrain]

Source: Consecrated Hymns #142

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Text Information

First Line:	Come home as you are, who wander afar
Title:	Come Home as You Are
Author:	J. L. Scott
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	Then hasten away, O brother, today
Copyright:	Public Domain