Sowing Time

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See, the morn is brightening in the eastern sky

Author: Adaline Hohf Beery
Tune: [See the morn is brightening]
Published in 19 hymnals

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1 See, the morn is brighting
In the eastern sky;
Up! for work make ready,
Lie not idly by;
Hasten to the grain fields
With your precious seed;
Many willing workmen
Yet the Lord will need.

Refrain:
’Tis the time for sowing
Seeds of precious worth,
Scatter them like sunshine,
Over all the earth.
’Tis the time for sowing
Seeds of precious worth,
Scatter them like sunshine,
Over all the earth.

2 Sow the seeds of kindness
In your neighbor’s heart,
You will soon with gladness
See the plantlets start;
If the soil is stony,
Never fear to sow;
Some rift may be open
Where the stalk may grow. [Refrain]

3 Sow along the highway,
Strangers may be there;
You may make them better
By the gift of pray’r;
Sow beneath the mountain,
While your strength is giv’n;
Sow till life is ended,
You will reap in heav’n. [Refrain]

Source: Pearls of Praise #33

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Author: Adaline Hohf Beery

Adaline H. Beery was born on December 20, 1859 in Hanover, Pennsylvania. Adaline’s family moved to Iowa when she was 10 years old. She attended Mount Morris College Academy, Mount Morris, Illinois and for while taught in Iowa public schools. Adaline wrote hundreds of poems, many of which appeared in Brethren periodicals and in the 1897 Poems of a Decade. She died on February 24, 1929, Kane, Illinois. NN, Hymnary editor. Source: Cyber Hymnal Go to person page >

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First Line:	See, the morn is brightening in the eastern sky
Title:	Sowing Time
Author:	Adaline Hohf Beery
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	'Tis the time for sowing
Copyright:	Public Domain