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O prepare, this message warns you

Author: Thomas S. Cobb Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: If today should be your last day

[If today should be your last day]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Thos. S. Cobb Tune Key: F Major or modal Incipit: 12323 43133 24312 Used With Text: Warning

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Author: T. S. C. Hymnal: The New Wonderful Songs for Work and Worship #163 (1938) First Line: If today should be your last day Refrain First Line: Oh, prepare, this message warns you Lyrics: 1 If today should be your last day, And it may be so; Would you still prefer the dark way, Filled with sin and woe? Refrain: Oh, prepare, this message warns you, do not longer wait, Death may claim you any moment, Then 'twill be too late. 2 It may be your very last day, Leave the dang'rous sand, Lest you sink beyond redemption, Lost from glory land. [Refrain] 3 Ev'ry day is some ones last day, Come His call embrace,-- For there'll come a day of judgment, One and all must face. [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: [If today should be your last day]

O prepare, this message warns you

Author: Thomas S. Cobb Hymnal: Select Songs #d50 (1935) First Line: If today should be your last day

O prepare, this message warns you

Author: Thomas S. Cobb Hymnal: Zion Songs, Spiritual Hymns #d61 (1927) First Line: If today should be your last day

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Thomas S. Cobb

1876 - 1942 Author of "O prepare, this message warns you" Thomas S. Cobb (1876-1942), a native Texan, was educated in much the same circles as [Austin] Taylor, and received his music diploma from the Western Normal and College of Music in Dallas. He taught singing schools across Texas and the bordering states, and was particularly noted for the "Cobb Quartet" made up of his four daughters. He was recruited to Firm Foundation by Showalter in 1935.(Finley, 122ff.) Cobb edited only four hymnals for Firm Foundation before his death in 1942, but among these was the significant New Wonderful Songs (1933); at 296 hymns it was part of the trend toward more substantial publications. Prior to his work with Firm Foundation, Cobb edited hymnals for the Quartet Music Company of Fort Worth, Texas. A search of WorldCat.org shows that he was involved with at least 7 books for this publisher, going back as far as the 1890s when it was called the "Quartette Company." One of these earlier works From the Cross to the Crown (1921?) was subtitled, "Scriptural Songs," and was co-edited with Elder T. B. Clark and T. B. Mosley, one of the most well-known singing school teachers among the Churches of Christ in the southeastern U.S. Mosley was also known as a staunch doctrinal conservative. This gives some idea of the bona fides Cobb brought with him during the era of the "hymnal controversy" surrounding E. L. Jorgenson's Great Songs of the Church. Jorgenson was firmly in the premillennial camp, and was an editor of Word and Work, the primary voice of this viewpoint within the Churches of Christ. Opponents of premillennialism objected to several hymns in Great Songs that supported this doctrine, or were at least questionable. (Most of these were removed or altered in the better-known "No. 2" edition). Thomas S. Cobb passed from this life in 1942, shortly after the last of the pre-war Firm Foundation hymnals appeared. --drhamrick.blogspot.com/2012/01/hymnals-published-by-firm-foundation.html