Delay Not

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Delay not, delay not: O sinner draw near; The waters of life are now flowing for thee!

Author: Thomas Hastings
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	As Though the Whole Creation Cried - Vol…

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	O Come, All Ye Faithful Gathering Rite

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1 Delay not! Delay not! O sinner, draw near!
The waters of life are now flowing for you.
No price is demanded, the Savior is here;
redemption is purchased, God's promise is true.

2 Delay not! Delay not, O sinner, to come,
for mercy still lingers and calls you today.
Its voice is not heard in the vale of the tomb;
its message, unheeded, will soon pass away.

3 Delay not! Delay not! The Spirit of grace,
long grieved and resisted, may take his sad flight
and leave you in darkness to finish your race,
to sink in the gloom of eternity's night.

4 Delay not! Delay not! Why longer abuse
the love and compassion of Jesus, your God?
A fountain is opened— how can you refuse?
Come, wash and be cleansed in his pardoning blood.

Source: Christian Worship: Hymnal #712

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Author: Thomas Hastings

Hastings, Thomas, MUS. DOC., son of Dr. Seth Hastings, was born at Washington, Lichfield County, Connecticut, October 15, 1784. In 1786, his father moved to Clinton, Oneida Co., N. Y. There, amid rough frontier life, his opportunities for education were small; but at an early age he developed a taste for music, and began teaching it in 1806. Seeking a wider field, he went, in 1817, to Troy, then to Albany, and in 1823 to Utica, where he conducted a religious journal, in which he advocated his special views on church music. In 1832 he was called to New York to assume the charge of several Church Choirs, and there his last forty years were spent in great and increasing usefulness and repute. He died at New York, May 15, 1872. His aim was the… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Delay not, delay not: O sinner draw near; The waters of life are now flowing for thee!
Title:	Delay Not
Author:	Thomas Hastings
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

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ST. MICHAELS (German)

ST. MICHAEL'S is an anonymous tune first published by William Gawler (b. Lambeth, London, England, 1750; d. London, 1809) in 1789 in his London collection Hymns and Psalms Used at the Asylum for Female Orphans (1785-1789). Gawler was organist at the Asylum of Refuge for French Orphans in Lambeth, th…

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Christian Worship: Hymnal (2021), p.725

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A Book of Worship for the Use of the Evangelical Lutheran Church ... of the Church of the Redeemer, Richmond, Virginia #d29

Additional Hymns, Adopted by the General Synod of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church in North America, at their Session, June 1846, and authorized to be used in the churches under their care #87

Book of Hymns and Tunes, comprising the psalms and hymns for the worship of God, approved by the general assembly of 1866, arranged with appropriate tunes... by authority of the assembly of 1873 #331a

Conference Hymns. a new collection of hymns, designed especially for use in conference and prayer meetings, and family worship. #184

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