1 You are drifting with the tide,
Onward down the stream you glide,
Drawing nearer to the danger sign;
Sad will be your awful fate
When you find, but then too late,
You have reached the "Past Redemption Line."
Refrain:
O the "Past Redemption Line"
Is near to some soul,
Tell me, brother, is it yours or mine?
Idle not your time away,
Come to Jesus while you may,
Ere you cross the "Past Redemption Line."
2 You are drifting from the shore,
Faster now than e’er before,
O you need the Savior’s love divine;
As you reach the current swift,
Faster still your boat will drift,
Nearer to the "Past Redemption Line." [Refrain]
4 You are drifting farther on
Where no day will ever dawn,
And the light of hope will never shine;
To the darkness of despair
That awaits you over there,
When you cross the "Past Redemption Line." [Refrain]
Source: The Cyber Hymnal #8469
Jesse Randall (Pap) Baxter, Jr. (1887-1960)
Born: December 8, 1887, Lebanon, Alabama.
Died: January 21, 1960.
Baxter grew up in DeKalb County, Alabama. In 1926, he bought part of Virgil Stamps’ Gospel music firm, which became the Stamps-Baxter Music and Printing Company, one of the most successful Gospel music publishers of the early 20th Century. Baxter ran the company’s Chattanooga, Tennessee, office until Stamps’ death in 1940, then moved to Dallas, Texas, to run the main office. After Baxter’s death, his wife, Clarice, ran the business until she died; it was then sold to Zondervan. Baxter was inducted into the Southern Gospel Mus… Go to person page >
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