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Why Not Now?
Author: El Nathan Appears in 248 hymnals First Line: While we pray and while we plead Refrain First Line: Why not now? Why not now? Lyrics: 1 While we pray and while we plead,
While you see your soul's deep need,
While our Father calls you home,
Will you not, my brother, come?
Chorus:
Why not now? why not now?
Why not come to Jesus now?
Why not now? why not now?
Why not come to Jesus now?
2 You have wandered far away;
Do not risk another day;
Do not turn from God your face,
But today accept His grace. [Chorus]
3 In the world you've failed to find
Aught of peace for troubled mind;
Come to Christ, on Him believe,
Peace and joy you shall receive. [Chorus]
4 Come to Christ, confession make;
Come to Christ, and pardon take;
Trust in Him from day to day,
He will keep you all the way. [Chorus] Used With Tune: [While we pray and while we plead]
Why Not Now?
[While we pray and while we plead]
Appears in 169 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Charles C. Case Tune Key: C Major Incipit: 51727 65365 42543 Used With Text: Why Not Now?
[While we pray and while we plead]
While We Pray, and While We Plead
Author: El Nathan Hymnal: Great Songs of the Church #376 (1921) Refrain First Line: Why not now? why not now? Languages: English Tune Title: [While we pray, and while we plead]
While We Pray, and While We Plead
While We Pray, and While We Plead
Author: El Nathan Hymnal: Christian Hymns #435 (1948) Languages: English Tune Title: [While we pray, and while we plead]
While We Pray, and While We Plead
While We Pray and While We Plead
Author: Daniel W. Whittle, 1840-1901 Hymnal: Sacred Songs of the Church #446 (2007) First Line: While we pray, and while we plead Tune Title: [While we pray, and while we plead]
While We Pray and While We Plead
D. W. Whittle
1840 - 1901 Person Name: Daniel W. Whittle Author of "Why Not Now?" in Hallowed Hymns, New and Old [Also published under the pseudonym El Nathan.]
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Whittle, D. W.. Six of his hymns (Nos. 295, 308,363, 385, 386, 417) are given in I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs and Solos, under the signature of "El Nathan."
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
D. W. Whittle
C. C. Case
1843 - 1918 Composer of "[While we pray and while we plead]" in The Cokesbury Hymnal Charles Clinton Case USA 1843-1918. Born in Linesville, PA, his family moved to Gustavus, OH, when he was four. His father was an accomplished violinist, but a neighbor gave him a small violin when he was nine, and he mastered it before he could read music. At age 16 he went to singing school (without parental consent), borrowing the money from a neighbor. C. A. Bentley, a prominent conductor, was his first vocal music instructor, and William Bradbury's “Jubilee” was the school textbook. For three winters in a row, he attended Bentley's singing school, working his father's farm in the summer. He married Annie Williams. In 1866 he studied music in Boston with B. F. Baker. He also studied under George Root, Horatio Palmer, Philip Bliss, George Webb, and others, hymnwriters in their own right. Soon after, Case began teaching music, and when James McGranahan moved two miles from his home, they became friends. Case wrote and edited a number of Gospel song books in his life. 6 works.
John Perry
C. C. Case
