If today should be your last day

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If today should be your last day

Author: Thomas S. Cobb
Tune: [If today should be your last day]
Published in 3 hymnals

Representative Text

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]

Source: The New Wonderful Songs for Work and Worship #163

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Author: Thomas S. Cobb

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 o… Go to person page >

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