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Now Is the Accepted Time

O why will you longer your choice delay?

Author: Eliza D. Hand
Tune: [O why will you longer your choice delay]
Published in 6 hymnals

Printable scores: PDF, Noteworthy Composer
Audio files: MIDI

Representative Text

1 O why will you longer your choice delay?
The Savior is waiting for you;
Then come to Him now, and repenting, say:
Lord, what wilt Thou have me to do?

Chorus:
Now, just now is the time,
Now, just now is the time;
Now is the day of salvation,
Come, come just now.

2 O come while He calls you, just as you are;
While mercy is offered to all;
Return, tho’ in sin you have wandered far;
O hear, and attend to His call. [Chorus]

3 O why will you doubt Him, refuse His love,
Why grieve Him by turning away?
He’s pleading with you from the throne above,
O come, then, while yet it is day. [Chorus]

4 He knocks at the door of your trembling heart,
O will you not let Him come in?
Unbar it, or He may ere long depart,
And leave you all hopeless in sin. [Chorus]

Source: Victory Songs: For the Church, Sunday School and Evangelistic Services. #213

Author: Eliza D. Hand

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Text Information

First Line: O why will you longer your choice delay?
Title: Now Is the Accepted Time
Author: Eliza D. Hand
Source: Victorious Service Songs by Homer A. Rodeheaver (Chicago and Philadelphia: The Rodeheaver Company, 1925)
Language: English
Refrain First Line: Now, just now is the time
Copyright: Public Domain

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