Why Delay?

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Why delay to make your peace with heaven's eternal King?

Author: George F. Root
Tune: [Why delay to make your peace with heaven's eternal King?]
Published in 4 hymnals

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1. Why delay to make your peace with Heav’n’s eternal King?
Why delay the pardon that the prayer of faith will bring?

Refrain
Why delay, why delay? no better time will come;
Accept His call and find in Him
A resting place, a home.

2. Why delay to leave the husks on which your soul has fed?
Why refuse the gracious hand that holds the heav’nly bread? [Refrain]

3. Why delay to turn your feet toward your Father’s door?
Why delay to enter there and sorrow nevermore? [Refrain]

4. Hear ye not His pleading, hear ye not His Spirit’s power?
Brother, why not give yourself to Him this very hour?

Source: The Cyber Hymnal #7448

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Author: George F. Root

Root, George F., MUS. DOC, born in Sheffield, Berkshire County, Mass., Aug. 30, 1820. He is much more widely known as a composer of popular music than as a hymn writer. Four of his hymns are in I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs & Solos, 1878. Nos. 16, 100, 293, and 297. A sympathetic biographical sketch, with portrait, is in The Tonic Sol-Fa Reporter, Sep. 1886. He died Aug. 6, 1895. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Why delay to make your peace with heaven's eternal King?
Title:	Why Delay?
Author:	George F. Root
Language:	English
Publication Date:	1887
Copyright:	Public Domain