Will You Come to the Feast?

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Will you come to the feast that is spread you?

Author: Eden Reeder Latta
Tune: [Will you come to the feast that is spread for you]
Published in 4 hymnals

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1 Will you come to the feast that is spread for you?
Will you come? will you come?
Long ago would the Saviour have fed you!
Will you come? will you come?

Refrain:
Will you come to the feast, needy sinner?
He’ll the needs of your soul supply,
Will you come to the feast, dying sinner?
Will you come to the feast, or die?

2 Will you come to the feast you have slighted?
Will you come? will you come?
By the patient Redeemer invited,
Will you come? will you come? [Refrain]

3 Will you come to the feast of salvation?
Will you come? will you come?
Will you come and be done with privation,
Will you come? will you come? [Refrain]

4 Will you come to the feast while ‘tis offered?
Will you come? will you come?
To provide it, how Jesus once suffered!
Will you come? will you come? [Refrain]

Source: Crowning Day No. 2 #174

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Author: Eden Reeder Latta

Rv Eden Reeder Latta USA 1839-1915. Born at Haw Patch, IN, the son of a Methodist minister, (also a boyhood friend of hymn writer Willam A Ogden) he became a school teacher. During the American Civil War he preached for the Manchester Methodist Church and other congregations (possibly as a circuit rider filling empty pulpits). In 1863 he married Mary Elizabeth Wright, and they had five children: Arthur, Robert, Jennie, two others. He taught for the public schools of Manchester, and later Colesburg, IA. He moved to Guttenberg, IA, in the 1890s, and continued writing song lyrics for several major gospel composers, including William Ogden, James McGranahan, James Fillmore, and Edmund Lorenz. He wrote 1600+ songs and hymns, many being wi… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Will you come to the feast that is spread you?
Title:	Will You Come to the Feast?
Author:	Eden Reeder Latta
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	Will you come to the feast, needy sinner?
Copyright:	Public Domain