1 Sinner, come,
Mid thy gloom,
All thy guilt confessing;
Trembling, now,
Contrite bow,
Take the offer'd blessing.
2 Sinner, come,
While there's room,
While the feast is waiting;
While the Lord
By his word,
Kindly is inviting.
3 Sinner, come,
Lo, the tomb
Opens wide before thee!
See death stand--
Lift his hand,
Waiting to devour thee.
4 Sinner, come,
Ere thy doom
Shall be seal'd for ever;
Now return,
Grieve and mourn,
Flee to Christ the Saviour.
Source: The Minstrel of Zion: a book of religious songs, accompanied with appropriate music, chiefly original #35
Hastings, Thomas, MUS. DOC., son of Dr. Seth Hastings, was born at Washington, Lichfield County, Connecticut, October 15, 1784. In 1786, his father moved to Clinton, Oneida Co., N. Y. There, amid rough frontier life, his opportunities for education were small; but at an early age he developed a taste for music, and began teaching it in 1806. Seeking a wider field, he went, in 1817, to Troy, then to Albany, and in 1823 to Utica, where he conducted a religious journal, in which he advocated his special views on church music. In 1832 he was called to New York to assume the charge of several Church Choirs, and there his last forty years were spent in great and increasing usefulness and repute. He died at New York, May 15, 1872. His aim was the… Go to person page >| First Line: | Sinner! come, 'mid thy gloom |
| Title: | Sinner, Come |
| Author: | Thomas Hastings |
| Language: | English |
| Copyright: | Public Domain |
Sinner, come. 'Mid thy gloom. Lent. In T. Hastings's Spiritual Songs, 1831, No. 278.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
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