1 Read the times with keen discerning,
Oh, ye servants of the Lord;
See the signs of Christ’s returning,
As is promised in His word.
Refrain:
If He should come tonight,
If He should come tonight,
Would He find us watching, waiting,
With our lamps all trimmed and bright?
If He should come tonight,
If He should come tonight,
Would He find us watching, waiting,
If the Lord should come tonight?
2 Note the earth already quaking,
’Neath our king’s oncoming tread;
Soon His voice, the silence breaking,
Shall awake the sleeping dead. [Refrain]
3 Suddenly and without warning,
He shall in the clouds appear,
And the great millennial morning
Of His pow’r is almost here. [Refrain]
4 He His chosen bride shall gather,
When He comes to earth again;
To the bosom of the Father,
Evermore with Him to reign. [Refrain]
Source: The Cyber Hymnal #14942
Lelia (Mrs. C.H.) Morris (1862-1929) was born in Pennsville, Morgan County, Ohio. When her family moved to Malta on the Muskingum River she and her sister and mother had a millinery shop in McConnelsville. She and her husband Charles H. Morris were active in the Methodist Episcopal Church and at the camp meetings in Sebring and Mt. Vernon. She wrote hymns as she did her housework. Although she became blind at age 52 she continued to write hymns on a 28-foot long blackboard that her family had built for her. She is said to have written 1000 texts and many tunes including "Sweeter as the years go by."
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