1 What will you do when the Judge appears,
What will you say of your misspent years,
How can you answer your mother's tears,
What will you do when the Judge appears?
Refrain
What will you do when the Judge appears?
Christ is the refuge whatever betide;
You will be saved if in Him you abide;
What will you do when the Judge appears?
2 What will you do when The Crucified
Points to the cross where for you he died,
How can you hide from your guilty fears,
What will you do when the Judge appears? [Refrain]
3 What will you do when you stand in need,
Without a friend who can intercede,
Too late your pleadings, in vain your tears,
What will you do when the Judge appears? [Refrain]
4 What will you do with your pomp and pride,
What will you do, for you must decide?
Hasten today, for the judgment nears;
What will you do when the Judge appears? [Refrain]
Source: The New Praiseworthy: for the Church and Sunday School #220
Alfred Henry Ackley was born 21 January 1887 in Spring Hill, Pennsylvania. He was the youngest son of Stanley Frank Ackley and the younger brother of B. D. Ackley. His father taught him music and he also studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London. He graduated from Westminster Theological Seminary in Maryland and was ordained as a Presbyterian minister in 1914. He served churches in Pennsylvania and California. He also worked with the Billy Sunday and Homer Rodeheaver evangelist team and for Homer Rodeheaver's publishing company. He wrote around 1500 hymns. He died 3 July 1960 in Los Angeles.
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