Decide Now

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O wanderer come, this hour decide thy path thy heart will choose

Author: W. Howard Doane
Tune: [O wanderer come, this hour decide]
Published in 5 hymnals

Audio files: MIDI

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1 O, wand’rer come, this hour decide,
The path Thy heart will choose;
Say, wilt thou live for Christ alone,
O canst thou still refuse.

Refrain:
Decide now, decide now,
Thy Saviour is tenderly calling thee;
Decide now, decide now,
Tomorrow may never be.

2 Behold, He stands with open arms
To give thee life and light;
His word believe, His grace receive,
O come be saved tonight. [Refrain]

3 Decide for Him, thy dearest friend,
Why wilt thou yet delay;
What tho’ thy sins are crimson red,
He’ll wash them all away. [Refrain]

4 No other name but His can save,
Then haste His love to share;
Throw open wide thy yielding heart,
And He will enter there. [Refrain]

Source: Songs of Faith and Hope Number 2 #24

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Author: W. Howard Doane

An industrialist and philanthropist, William H. Doane (b. Preston, CT, 1832; d. South Orange, NJ, 1915), was also a staunch supporter of evangelistic campaigns and a prolific writer of hymn tunes. He was head of a large woodworking machinery plant in Cincinnati and a civic leader in that city. He showed his devotion to the church by supporting the work of the evangelistic team of Dwight L. Moody and Ira D. Sankey and by endowing Moody Bible Institute in Chicago and Denison University in Granville, Ohio. An amateur composer, Doane wrote over twenty-two hundred hymn and gospel song tunes, and he edited over forty songbooks. Bert Polman… Go to person page >

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First Line:	O wanderer come, this hour decide thy path thy heart will choose
Title:	Decide Now
Author:	W. Howard Doane
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	Decide now, decide now
Copyright:	Public Domain