That Will Be the Resting Time

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When the calls of duty are urging on

Author: William M. Runyan
Tune: [When the calls of duty are urging on]
Published in 4 hymnals

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1 When the calls of duty are urging on,
When the spirit wavers and strength is almost gone;
Breathe a pray’r for courage along your way,
God will give His grace sufficient for each day.

Refrain:
There will be a resting time by and by,
It is now our testing time as the moments fly,
When our work is ended, our souls to God ascended,
That will be the resting time by and by.

2 In the field is standing the ripened grain;
Shall these souls now perish and wait for help in vain?
Those who serve their Saviour have life’s short day,
O to use these golden hours in God’s own way. [Refrain]

3 Rescuing the fallen, the lone and lost,
Doing love’s sweet service all heedless of the cost;
Ever speeding onward to dare and do,
All too soon the evening time will come to you. [Refrain]

Source: Songs of Full Salvation #16

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Author: William M. Runyan

Showing early musical promise, William Marion Runyan (b. Marion, NY, 1870; d. Pittsburg, KS, 1957) was a substitute church organist by the age of twelve. He became a Methodist minister in 1891 and served several churches in Kansas but turned to evangelism in 1903; he worked for the Central Methodist Conference for the next twenty years. Following that service, Runyan became pastor at the Federated Church at John Brown University, Sulphur Springs, Arkansas. Editor of Christian Workers Magazine, he also served the Moody Bible Institute and was an editor for Hope Publishing Company until his retirement in 1948. Runyan wrote a number of hymn texts, gospel songs, and hymn tunes. Bert Polman Go to person page >

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First Line:	When the calls of duty are urging on
Title:	That Will Be the Resting Time
Author:	William M. Runyan
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	There will be a resting time by and by
Publication Date:	1919
Copyright:	Public Domain