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Too Late at the Gate

Author: Vida Munden Nixon Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: When at last I shall stand at the great judgment bar Refrain First Line: Shall it then be too late

[When at last I shall stand at the great judgment bar]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: R. E. Winsett Incipit: 12332 35633 21556 Used With Text: Too Late at the Gate

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Author: Vida Munden Nixon Hymnal: Soul Inspiring Songs #3 (1929) First Line: When at last I shall stand at the great judgment bar Refrain First Line: Shall it then be too late Lyrics: 1 When at last I shall stand at the great judgment bar, With the portals of heaven be standing ajar? Shall I then hear the answer, “Well done, enter in,” Or be driven away all because of my sin? Shall it then be too late As I stand at the gate And the glorious city behold? Will the Savior then say, “Cursed one turned away From the beautiful portals of gold.” 2 Shall I plead at the portals of glory in vain While I wistfully wait there an entrance to gain; All, alas! to be turned from that city so fair And forever be cast into darkest despair? Shall it then be too late As I stand at the gate And the glorious city behold? Will the Savior then say, “Cursed one turned away From the beautiful portals of gold.” 3 O the wailing and woe, should I then be too late And forever be turned from the beautiful gate! O what sorrowful shame if at last I should call For the rocks and them mountains upon me to fall! Shall it then be too late As I stand at the gate And the glorious city behold? Will the Savior then say, “Cursed one turned away From the beautiful portals of gold.” 4 So I’ll turn to the way that is narrow and straight To the pathway that leads to the beautiful gate! And I’ll journey along till that city I see Thru the portals that open its glory to me. If I be not too late As I stand at the gate And the glorious city behold; Then the Savior will say Come ye blessed today, Enter beautiful portals of gold. Languages: English Tune Title: [When at last I shall stand at the great judgment bar]

Too late at the gate

Author: Vida Munden Nixon Hymnal: Songs of Spiritual Power; Songs that Win #d185 (1936) First Line: When at last I shall stand

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R. E. Winsett

1876 - 1952 Composer of "[When at last I shall stand at the great judgment bar]" in Soul Inspiring Songs Robert Emmett Winsett (January 15, 1876 — June 26, 1952 (aged 76) was an American composer and publisher of Gospel music. Winsett was born in Bledsoe County, Tennessee, and graduated from the Bowman Normal School of Music in 1899. He founded his own publishing company in 1903, and his first publication, Winsett's Favorite Songs, quickly became popular among the Baptist and Pentecostal churches of the American South. Pentecostal Power followed in 1907; that year Winsett completed postgraduate work at a conservatory. He married Birdie Harris in 1908, and had three sons and two daughters with her. He settled in Fort Smith, Arkansas, continuing to compose gospel songs, of which he would write over 1,000 in total. He became a minister in 1923, and was affiliated with the Church of God (Seventh Day). Birdie Harris died late in the 1920s, and shortly thereafter Winsett moved back to Tennessee. He founded a new company in Chattanooga, and published more shape note music books. He remarried, to Mary Ruth Edmonton, in 1930, and had three further children. Winsett's final publication, Best of All (1951), sold over 1 million copies, and in total his books sold over ten million copies. His song "Jesus Is Coming Soon" won a Dove Award for Gospel Song of the Year at the 1969 awards. He has been inducted into the Southern Gospel Museum and Hall of Fame. --www.wikipedia.org