1 Launch out the life-boat, there’s a cry o’er the lea,
“O come and help us, there’s a storm on the sea.”
Souls now are sinking into darkness away;
Hark! hear their crying, send the lift-boat today.
Refrain:
Launch out the life-boat, launch out the life-boat,
Launch out the life-boat, o’er the wild billows wave.
Launch out the life-boat, do not delay;
Souls now are sinking, send the life-boat today.
2 Sinners are sinking ‘neath the waves of their crime,
See their ship low’ring on the quicksands of time.
O Christian workers, rise up in your might,
Send out the life-boat, bring your friends to the light. [Refrain]
3 Hark! hear them calling as they in their sins sink,
“Send us your life-boat, we are nearing death’s brink.”
Jesus is ready not to start with the crew;
O Christian soldier, He is calling for you. [Refrain]
4 Raging in madness is the storm of the sea;
Heaving and surging winds blow swift o’er the lea.
Trembling and fearful, sinners wave beck’ning hands;
Launch out the life-boat, bring them safe to the land. [Refrain]
Source: Crowning Day No. 4 #202
Stephen Jesse Oslin (1858-1928) was "a teacher, preacher, poet, musician, composer, author and publisher" from Walker County, Alabama. Beginning his teaching career in Arkansas, he studied with W. D. C. Botefuhr in Fort Smith during the 1880s and briefly published a music journal, The Tempo, from that city. Most of his early career, however, was spent in the Indian Territory (today eastern Oklahoma), where he served as the western correspondent for the Ruebush-Kieffer Musical Million.
In 1905 Oslin incorporated the Eureka Publishing Company, in Stigler, I.T., where he published songbooks, a paper called The Eureka Messenger, music theory texts, and held sessions of the Eureka Music Normal. His singing classes and music normals were taugh… Go to person page >
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