1. You are writ­ing a re­cord each day that you live,
On the soul where your choic­es are sealed;
By and by an ac­count for your life you must give,
And the record will then be re­vealed.

Refrain:
When the great Book of life is un­sealed,
And your re­cord is clear­ly re­vealed;
What hope then for you? What, soul, will you do?
When the sec­rets of life are re­vealed?

2. O, ye care­less ones, thought­less ones liv­ing in sin,
So ne­glect­ful of deeds which you do;
Know you not that your sin is re­cord­ed with­in,
And will go to the judg­ment with you? [Refrain]

3. Yet there’s hope for the trust­ing and pe­ni­tent soul,
All its sins may be blot­ted away;
By and by all shall know that the blood mak­eth whole,
When the Book is un­sealed in that day. [Refrain]