Until he come for sure the master cometh

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Until he come for sure the master cometh

Author: Ernest G. W. Wesley
Tune: [Until He come,—for sure the Master cometh]
Published in 2 hymnals

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1 Until He come,—for sure the Master cometh,—
Until He come my heart shall watch and yearn
With eager love for Him my soul so loveth,
My Lord and King, who said, “I will return.”

2 Until He come! For surely comes the dawning
Of brightest day this world has ever known,
When light of heaven’s own eternal morning
Illumines earth with glory from the throne.

3 Until He come! Then flee all fear and sadness,
Lost, ever lost in depths of love divine!
Then ne’er a tear but born of heart’s deep gladness
That I am His, that He the King is mine!

4 Until He come! Then rapture overflowing
When from the skies He comes His own to claim!
O day of days, the Saviour’s splendors showing,
The glory of His all-excelling name!

Source: The Voice of Thanksgiving No. 3 #88

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Author: Ernest G. W. Wesley

Ernest G. W. Wesley was born and educated in England. At the age of seventeen he started writing for local newspapers. When he was twenty-two he worked as special correspondent for The New York Times in Buenos Aries. While he was in Buenos Aries he became licensed to preach in the Methodist Episcopal Church. He came to the United States in the early 1870's and continued writing and contributing to religious and secular papers. He wrote between five and six hundred hymns and nearly two thousand articles on religious and theological topics. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916) Go to person page >

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