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[We are told that a great day is coming]
Meter: 10.9.10.9 D Appears in 8 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Alvis O. Thomas Tune Key: A Flat Major Incipit: 51332 33431 17667 Used With Text: If Today Were the End of the Wordl
[We are told that a great day is coming]
If Today Were The End Of The World
Author: Johnson Oatman, Jr. Appears in 17 hymnals First Line: We are told that a great day is coming Refrain First Line: If the sun should be turned into darkness Used With Tune: [We are told that a great day is coming]
If Today Were The End Of The World
If Today Were the End of the World
Author: Rev. Johnson Oatman Jr. Hymnal: Melodies of Love #55 (1962) First Line: We are told that a great day is coming Refrain First Line: If the sun should be turned into darkness Languages: English Tune Title: [We are told that a great day is coming]
If Today Were the End of the World
If Today Were the End of the World
Author: Johnson Oatman, Jr. Hymnal: The New Wonderful Songs for Work and Worship #108 (1938) First Line: We are told that a great day is coming Refrain First Line: If the sun should be turned into darkness Lyrics: 1 We are told that a great day is coming,
When the stars shall like banners be furled;
But would you be prepared for the judgment,
If today were the end of the world?
Chorus:
If the sun should be turned into darkness,
And the stars from their orbits be hurled,
O how would it fare with you my brother,
If today were the end of the world?
2 When the angel shall sound his great trumpet,
On the clouds will our Savior descend;
Then the cry will go out, "Time is over,"
Then the world with its turmoil will end.
[Chorus]
3 No one knows but the Father in heaven,
When the Lord in the air shall appear;
But if we are prepared for His coming,
We may greet Him with joy, not with fear. [Chorus]
4 This old world shall not roll on for ever,
Nor the moon like a banner unfurled;
Then suppose, just suppose for a moment;
That today were the end of the world. [Chorus]
Languages: English Tune Title: [We are told that a great day is coming]
If Today Were the End of the World
If Today Were The End Of The World
Author: Johnson Oatman, Jr. Hymnal: Clarion Call #64 (2002) First Line: We are told that a great day is coming Refrain First Line: If the sun should be turned into darkness Languages: English Tune Title: [We are told that a great day is coming]
If Today Were The End Of The World
Alvis O. Thomas
1886 - 1929 Composer of "[We are told that a great day is coming]" in Calvary Songs Alvis Overton Thomas, born and died in Texas.
Dianne Shapiro, from Find a Grave website (accessed 6/17/2022)
Alvis O. Thomas
Alvin O. Thomas
Composer of "[We are told that a great day is coming]" in Song Service
Alvin O. Thomas
Johnson Oatman, Jr.
1856 - 1922 Author of "If Today Were the End of the World" in The New Wonderful Songs for Work and Worship Johnson Oatman, Jr., son of Johnson and Rachel Ann Oatman, was born near Medford, N. J., April 21, 1856. His father was an excellent singer, and it always delighted the son to sit by his side and hear him sing the songs of the church.
Outside of the usual time spent in the public schools, Mr. Oatman received his education at Herbert's Academy, Princetown, N. J., and the New Jersey Collegiate Institute, Bordentown, N. J. At the age of nineteen he joined the M.E. Church, and a few years later he was granted a license to preach the Gospel, and still later he was regularly ordained by Bishop Merrill. However, Mr. Oatman only serves as a local preacher.
For many years he was engaged with his father in the mercantile business at Lumberton, N. J., under the firm name of Johnson Oatman & Son. Since the death of his father, he has for the past fifteen years been in the life insurance business, having charge of the business of one of the great companies in Mt. Holly, N. J., where he resides.
He has written over three thousand hymns, and no gospel song book is considered as being complete unless it contains some of his hymns.
In 1878 he married Wilhelmina Reid, of Lumberton, N.J. and had three children, Rachel, Miriam, and Percy.
Excerpted from Biography of Gospel Song and Hymn Writers by Jacob Henry Hall; Fleming H. Revell, Co. 1914
Johnson Oatman, Jr.
