How Would it Fare With Thee?

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If Jesus should summon the nations, Before Him just now to appear

Author: Thoro Harris
Tune: [If Jesus should summon the nations]
Published in 3 hymnals

Audio files: MIDI

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1 If Jesus should summon the nations
Before Him just now to appear,
Calling the dead into judgment,
Bidding the living draw near,
Each to receive from the Master
Reward, whatsoever it be,
Then, O my brother, my sister,
How would it fare with thee?

Refrain:
How would it fare with me?
How would it fare with thee?
If summoned this moment to meet Him,
How would it fare with thee?

2 Would we be found watching and waiting
To welcome our Savior and Lord?
Could we rejoice if this moment
He would fulfill His own word?
If on a chariot of glory
The blessed Redeemer we’d see,
Tell me, my sister, my brother,
How would it fare with thee? [Refrain]

3 Our Savior is coming as surely
As once He was born long ago;
Some will be glad to receive Him,
Some will reap sorrow and woe.
They who are faithful will hail Him,
The careless His presence will flee;
Soon He will come in His glory;
How will it fare with thee? [Refrain]

Source: Light and Life Songs No. 3 #67

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Author: Thoro Harris

Born: March 31, 1874, Washington, DC. Died: March 27, 1955, Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Buried: International Order of Odd Fellows Cemetery, Eureka Springs, Arkansas. After attending college in Battle Creek, Michigan, Harris produced his first hymnal in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1902. He then moved to Chicago, Illinois at the invitation of Peter Bilhorn, and in 1932, to Eureka Springs, Arkansas. He composed and compiled a number of works, and was well known locally as he walked around with a canvas bag full of handbooks for sale. His works include: Light and Life Songs, with William Olmstead & William Kirkpatrick (Chicago, Illinois: S. K. J. Chesbro, 1904) Little Branches, with George J. Meyer & Howard E. Smith (Chicago, Illi… Go to person page >

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First Line:	If Jesus should summon the nations, Before Him just now to appear
Title:	How Would it Fare With Thee?
Author:	Thoro Harris
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	How would it fare with me
Copyright:	Public Domain