When the Book Is Unsealed

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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]

Source: The Cyber Hymnal #16729

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman

Elisha Hoffman (1839-1929) after graduating from Union Seminary in Pennsylvania was ordained in 1868. As a minister he was appointed to the circuit in Napoleon, Ohio in 1872. He worked with the Evangelical Association's publishing arm in Cleveland for eleven years. He served in many chapels and churches in Cleveland and in Grafton in the 1880s, among them Bethel Home for Sailors and Seamen, Chestnut Ridge Union Chapel, Grace Congregational Church and Rockport Congregational Church. In his lifetime he wrote more than 2,000 gospel songs including"Leaning on the everlasting arms" (1894). The fifty song books he edited include Pentecostal Hymns No. 1 and The Evergreen, 1873. Mary Louise VanDyke… Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: You are writing a record each day that you live
Title: When the Book Is Unsealed
Author: Elisha A. Hoffman
Language: English
Refrain First Line: When the great book of life is unsealed
Copyright: Public Domain

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