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Text:God's Time Now
Author:Anonymous
Tune:SONOMA
Composer:Ira David Sankey
Media:MIDI file

10793. God's Time Now

1 Choose I must, and soon must choose
Holiness, or Heaven lose;
While, what Heaven loves, I hate—
Shut for me is Heaven’s gate.

2 Endless sin means endless woe;
Into endless sin I go—
If my soul, from reason rent,
Takes from sin its final bent!

3 As the stream its channel grooves,
And within that channel moves—
So doth habit’s deepest tide
Groove its bed, and there abide!

4 Light obeyed increaseth light!
Light resisted bringeth night;
Who shall give me will to choose,
If the love of light I lose?

5 Speed, my soul! this instant yield!
Let the light its scepter wield;
While thy God prolongeth grace—
Haste thee toward His holy face!

Text Information
First Line: Choose I must, and soon must choose
Title: God's Time Now
Author: Anonymous
Meter: 77.77
Language: English
Source: First Truths; or Lessons and Hymns for Christian Children, new ed. (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1843)
Copyright: Public Domain
Tune Information
Name: SONOMA
Composer: Ira David Sankey
Meter: 77.77
Key: B♭ Major
Source: Gospel Hymns No. 5 by Ira D. Sankey, James McGranahan and George C. Stebbins (Cincinnati/New York: John Church/Biglow & Main), 1887
Copyright: Public Domain



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