No Time for Your Savior

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You have time for seeking earth's treasures

Author: Haldor Lillenas
Tune: [You have time for seeking earth's treasures]
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1 You have time for seeking earth’s treasures,
You have time for hoarding its gain,
You have time to revel in pleasures,
You have time in sin to remain.

Chorus:
No time for your Savior,
While years onward roll;
Soon time will be over,
And you, and you will have lost your soul.

2 You have time for each earthly trifle,
As on you carelessly plod,
But the voice of conscience you stifle
While you live and die without God. [Chorus]

3 You have time today, but tomorrow
May never be yours, my friend;
What a great unspeakable sorrow,
If your life without God you should end. [Chorus]

Source: Inspiring Gospel Solos and Duets No. 1 #103

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Author: Haldor Lillenas

Rv Haldor Lillenas DMus Norway/USA 1885-1959. Born at Stord, near Bergen, Norway, his father sold their 15 acre farm in Norway and emigrated to the U.S., buying a farm in Colton, SD. After he built a sod house, the family (wife and three chldren) also came to SD in 1887. They moved to Astoria, Oregon in 1889, where Lillenas learned English and began writing song lyrics at an early age. In 1900 the family moved again to Roseville, MN, where he worked as a farm laborer and began attending a Lutheran high school at Hawick, MN. He sold a few songs at age 19. At age 21 he began writing more songs, encouraged by some earlier ones becoming popular (“He set me free” was one). His mother died in 1906 and his father returned to ND, but Li… Go to person page >

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First Line:	You have time for seeking earth's treasures
Title:	No Time for Your Savior
Author:	Haldor Lillenas
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	No time for your Savior