Delay Not

Representative Text

1 Delay not! Delay not! O sinner, draw near!
The waters of life are now flowing for you.
No price is demanded, the Savior is here;
redemption is purchased, God's promise is true.

2 Delay not! Delay not, O sinner, to come,
for mercy still lingers and calls you today.
Its voice is not heard in the vale of the tomb;
its message, unheeded, will soon pass away.

3 Delay not! Delay not! The Spirit of grace,
long grieved and resisted, may take his sad flight
and leave you in darkness to finish your race,
to sink in the gloom of eternity's night.

4 Delay not! Delay not! Why longer abuse
the love and compassion of Jesus, your God?
A fountain is opened— how can you refuse?
Come, wash and be cleansed in his pardoning blood.

Source: Christian Worship: Hymnal #712

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Author: Thomas Hastings

Hastings, Thomas, MUS. DOC., son of Dr. Seth Hastings, was born at Washington, Lichfield County, Connecticut, October 15, 1784. In 1786, his father moved to Clinton, Oneida Co., N. Y. There, amid rough frontier life, his opportunities for education were small; but at an early age he developed a taste for music, and began teaching it in 1806. Seeking a wider field, he went, in 1817, to Troy, then to Albany, and in 1823 to Utica, where he conducted a religious journal, in which he advocated his special views on church music. In 1832 he was called to New York to assume the charge of several Church Choirs, and there his last forty years were spent in great and increasing usefulness and repute. He died at New York, May 15, 1872. His aim was the… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Delay not, delay not: O sinner draw near; The waters of life are now flowing for thee!
Title:	Delay Not
Author:	Thomas Hastings
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

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Tune

ST. MICHAELS (German)

ST. MICHAEL'S is an anonymous tune first published by William Gawler (b. Lambeth, London, England, 1750; d. London, 1809) in 1789 in his London collection Hymns and Psalms Used at the Asylum for Female Orphans (1785-1789). Gawler was organist at the Asylum of Refuge for French Orphans in Lambeth, th…

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EXPOSTULATION (Hopkins)

FOUNDATION (American)

The anonymous tune FOUNDATION first appeared in Joseph Funk's A Compilation of Genuine Church Music (1832) as a setting for this text (there it was called PROTECTION). The tune was also published with the text in Southern Harmony and Sacred Harp. The ancestors of Joseph Funk (b. Lancaster County, PA…

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