The Cyber Hymnal ‎#9069

9069. Are You Ready?

1 Soon the evening shadows falling
Close the day of mortal life;
Soon the hand of death appalling
Draws thee from its weary strife.

Refrain:
Are you ready? Are you ready?
’Tis the Spirit calling, why delay?
Are you ready? Are you ready?
Do not linger longer, come today.

2 Soon the awful trumpet sounding
Calls thee to the judgment throne;
Now prepare, for love abounding
Yet has left thee not alone. [Refrain]

3 Oh, how fatal ’tis to linger!
Art thou ready—ready now?
Ready, should death’s icy finger
Lay its chill upon thy brow? [Refrain]

4 Priceless love and free salvation
Freely still are offered thee;
Yield no longer to temptation,
But from sin and sorrow flee. [Refrain]

Text Information

• First Line: Soon the evening shadows falling
• Title: Are You Ready?
• Author: J. Wenhaupt Slaughenhaupt (1878)
• Refrain First Line: Are you ready? Are you ready?
• Language: English
• Source: Francis Murphy's Gospel Temperance Hymnal by Jeremiah E. Rankin and Edmund S. Lorenz (New York: A. S. Barnes & Company, 1878)
• Copyright: Public Domain

Tune Information

• Name: [Soon the evening shadows falling]
• Composer: Edmund Simon Lorenz
• Key: E♭ Major
• Copyright: Public Domain