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[Have you ever closed your heart]

Appears in 5 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Rev. W. E. Penn Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 51123 21222 34323 Used With Text: Except Ye Repent

Author: Mrs. T. M. Griffin Appears in 9 hymnals First Line: Have you ever closed your heart Refrain First Line: Lo! He calls for your repentance Lyrics: 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] Scripture: Luke 13:3 Used With Tune: [Have you ever closed your heart]

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Except Ye Repent

Author: Mrs. T. M. Griffin Hymnal: The Gospel Awakening #8 (1888) First Line: Have you ever closed your heart Refrain First Line: Lo! He calls for your repentance Lyrics: 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] Scripture: Luke 13:3 Tune Title: [Have you ever closed your heart]

Except Ye Repent

Author: Mrs. T. M. Griffin Hymnal: Harvest Bells Nos. 1, 2 and 3 #82 (1892) First Line: Have you ever closed your heart Refrain First Line: Lo! He calls for your repentance Languages: English Tune Title: [Have you ever closed your heart]

Except Ye Repent

Author: Mrs. T. M. Griffin Hymnal: Songs for the Ransomed #75 (1887) First Line: Have you ever closed your heart Refrain First Line: Lo! He calls for your repentance Languages: English Tune Title: [Have you ever closed your heart]

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W. E. Penn

1832 - 1895 Person Name: William Evander Penn Composer of "CAMPINAS" in The Cyber Hymnal Penn, William Evander. (Near village of Old Jefferson, Rutherford County, Tennessee, August 11, 1832--April 29, 1895, Eureka Springs, Arkansas). Southern Baptist. Evangelist in Texas and other states, 1875-1895. Compiled three hymnals titled Harvest Bells (1881, 1884, 1887) for use in his meetings. His hymns were primarily revivalistic in emphasis. His finest hymn, "There is a rock in a weary land, Its shadow falls on the burning sand" was paid the compliment of being reworked and issued under the name of Edward Husband in D.B. Towner's Revival Hymns (Chicago, 1905). He and his wife Corilla Frances Sayle adopted three children. Ordained December 4, 1880. --David W. Music, and additional information from the DNAH Archives See: Linder, Michael. (1985). William Evander Penn : his contribution to church music (Unpublished doctoral dissertation). Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Worth, Texas. The Life and Labors of Major W. E. Penn. (1896). St. Louis: C. B. Woodward Printing).