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| Text: | Except Ye Repent |
| Author: | Mrs. T. M. Griffin |
| Tune: | [Have you ever closed your heart] |
| Composer: | Rev. W. E. Penn |
1. Have you ever closed your heart
To the Saviour's tender claim?
Have you ever taken part
With the world against His name?
Chorus:
Lo! He calls for your repentance
Now, poor wand'rer, tempest-tossed,
Hear the Master's solemn message:
"Come, repent, or you are lost."
2. Have you heard how Jesus died
On the cross that you might live?
Have you scorned the crimson tide
Which eternal life can give? [Chorus]
3. Why in blindness do you wait,
Wand'ring farther from the light,
Loving things which you should hate,
Sinking deeper into night? [Chorus]
4. Soon the summer days will go,
And the harvest time be past,
Then will cease His pleading low,
And your doom be sealed at last. [Chorus]
5. Oh, the tree that bears no fruit
Cannot always cumb'ring grow,
For His blade will smite the root,
And its beauty be laid low. [Chorus]
| Text Information | |
|---|---|
| First Line: | Have you ever closed your heart |
| Title: | Except Ye Repent |
| Author: | Mrs. T. M. Griffin |
| Refrain First Line: | Lo! He calls for your repentance |
| Publication Date: | 1888 |
| Scripture: | |
| Notes: | Public Domain. |
| Tune Information | |
|---|---|
| Name: | [Have you ever closed your heart] |
| Composer: | Rev. W. E. Penn |
| Key: | F Major |
| Notes: | Public Domain. |