Why Will Ye Die?

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Why will ye die, when promised life eternal

Author: F. G. Burroughs
Tune: [Why will ye die, when promised life eternal]
Published in 2 hymnals

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1 Why will ye die, when promised life eternal, -
When from thy guilt Christ offers thee release?
Why will ye choose the ways of sin and folly,
When wisdom's paths are pleasantness and peace?

Chorus:
Why will ye die? Why will ye die?
Jesus is asking, - lost one, reply;
Just as I am, thou dying Lamb,
Take me, and save me, just as I am.

2 Why will ye die, when bread is given freely, -
When without price ye all may buy and eat?
Why will ye faint beside the flowing fountain, -
Why taste his wrath, when pardon is so sweet? [Chorus]

3 Why will ye die, when for thy full redemption
Jesus, thy Saviour, died upon the cross?
Why will ye turn from gifts of endless value,
Trying to grasp earth's emptiness and dross? [Chorus]

4 Why will ye die beneath your heavy burdens,
When Jesus calls, "Come unto me and rest?"
Light is the burden of his loving kindness;
Easy the yoke of service he hath blest! [Chorus]

Source: Radiant Songs: for use in meetings for Christian worship or work #40

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Author: F. G. Burroughs

F. G. Burroughs was born in 1856 (nee Ophelia G. Browning) was the daughter of William Garretson Browning, a Methodist Episcopal minister, and Susan Rebecca Webb Browning. She married Thomas E. Burroughs in 1884. He died in 1904. She married Arthur Prince Adams, in 1905. He was a minister. Her poem, "Unanswered yet" which was written in 1879, was published in the The Christian Standard in 1880 with the name F. G. Browning. She also wrote under the name of Ophelia G. Adams and Mrs. T. E. Burroughs. Dianne Shapiro from The Literary Digest, July 29, 1899., The Register, Pine Plains, NY, October 24, 1884, Alumni Record of Wesleyan University, Middleton, Conn. 1921 Go to person page >

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First Line:	Why will ye die, when promised life eternal
Title:	Why Will Ye Die?
Author:	F. G. Burroughs
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	Why will ye die?
Copyright:	Public Domain