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Child, Your Father Calls
Author: Annie M. Stockton Appears in 9 hymnals First Line: Come home, dear sinner, while the light Refrain First Line: Come home, come home, dear child, come home Used With Tune: [Come home, dear sinner, while the light]
Child, Your Father Calls
[Come home, dear sinner, while the light]
Appears in 5 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Rev. J. H. Stockton Incipit: 11235 61531 23521 Used With Text: Child, Your Father Calls
[Come home, dear sinner, while the light]
Child, Your Father Calls
Author: Annie M. Stockton Hymnal: Beulah Songs #23 (1879) First Line: Come home, dear sinner, while the light Refrain First Line: Come home, come home, dear child, come home Lyrics: 1 Come home, dear sinner, while the light
Is beaming on your way,—
The door stands open wide for you,
Return while yet you may.
Refrain:
Come home, come home, dear child, come home,
Your Father bids you come;
Come home, come home, just now come home,
O weary wand’rer come.
2 Come home, dear sinner, by the cross,
Your Saviour waits for you;
He’ll cleanse away your earthly dross,
And make you happy too. [Refrain]
3 Come home, dear sinner, while you feel
The spirit move your hear;
While at the mercy-seat you kneel,
With every idol part. [Refrain]
4 Come home, dear sinner, while you may,
The church is calling, too;
With earnest faith begin to pray,
And heav’n will welcome you. [Refrain]
5 Come home, dear sinner, Jesus’ blood
Can wash out every stain;
Plunge now into the crimson flood
Of him who once was slain. [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: [Come home, dear sinner, while the light]
Child, Your Father Calls
Child, Your Father Calls
Author: Ann M. Stockton Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #10658 Meter: 8.6.8.6 D First Line: Come home, dear sinner, while the light Refrain First Line: Come home, come home Lyrics: 1 Come home, dear sinner, while the light
Is beaming on your way,
The door stands open wide for you,
Return while yet you may.
Refrain:
Come home, come home,
Dear child, come home,
Your Father bids you come;
Come home, come home,
Just now come home,
O weary wanderer, come.
2 Come home, dear sinner; by the cross
The Savior waits for you;
He’ll cleanse away your earthly dross,
And make you happy, too. [Refrain]
3 Come home, dear sinner, while you feel
The Spirit move your heart;
While at the mercy seat you kneel,
With every idol part. [Refrain]
4 Come home, dear sinner, while you may,
The Church is calling, too;
With earnest faith begin to pray,
And Heav’n will welcome you. [Refrain]
5 Come home, dear sinner, Jesus’ blood
Can wash out every stain;
Plunge now into the crimson flood
Of Him who once was slain. [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: BELFAST
Child, Your Father Calls
Child, Your Father Calls
Author: Annie M. Stockton Hymnal: Songs of Triumph #32 (1882) First Line: Come home, dear sinner, while the light Refrain First Line: Come home, come home, dear child, come home Languages: English Tune Title: [Come home, dear sinner, while the light]
Child, Your Father Calls
John H. Stockton
1813 - 1877 Person Name: Rev. J. H. Stockton Composer of "[Come home, dear sinner, while the light]" in Beulah Songs Stockton, John Hart, a Methodist minister, was born in 1813, and died in 1877. He was a member of the New Jersey Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and the successive pastoral charges that he filled as a member of that Conference are found in the Conference Journal. He was not only a preacher, but a musician and composer of tunes, as well as hymn writer. He published two gospel song books: Salvation Melodies, 1874, and Precious Songs, 1875.
Hymn Writers of the Church by Charles Nutter, 1911
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Stockton, John Hart, b. April 19, 1813, and d. March 25, 1877, was the author of "Come, every soul by sin oppressed" (Invitation), in I.D. Sankey's Sacred Songs and Solos, 1878, and of "The Cross, the Cross, the blood¬stained Cross" (Good Friday) in the same collection.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
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Stockton, John Hart. (New Hope, Pennsylvania, April 19, 1813--March 25, 1877). Born of Presbyterian parents, he was converted at a Methodist camp meeting in 1838, being received into full membership in the New Jersey Conference in 1857. Because of ill health he twice took the "supernumerary relations." He withdrew from actual pastoral work in 1874 and engaged in compiling and publishing gospel hymn books, issuing Salvation Melodies that year and Precious Songs in 1875, writing both words and music for a number of the songs. He died suddenly after attending a Sunday morning service at Arch Street Church, Philadelphia. Our Hymnody, McCutchan, has, perhaps, the fullest account of him readily available.
--Robert G. McCutchan, DNAH Archives
John H. Stockton
