Delay Not

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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

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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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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Hymns for the Camp. (3rd ed. rev. and enl.) #63

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Hymns for the Sanctuary and Social Worship #470

Hymns for Use in Divine Worship ... Seventh-Day Adventists #d241

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Hymns of the Ages #493

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Hymns of the Ages #493

Hymns of The Voice of Praise #d55

Hymns, Psalms and Gospel Songs with Responsive Readings #d68

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Hymns, Psalms and Gospel Songs #115

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Hymns #825

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Hymns #825

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Hymns #802

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Hymns #825

Inspiring Hymns #344

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Laudes Domini #286

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Laudes Domini #601

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Laudes Domini #256

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Light and Life Songs No. 3 #245

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Living Hymns #358

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Lutheran Worship #349

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Make Christ King #323

Manly's Choice #d44

Manual of Hymns #d24

Many Voices; or, Carmina Sanctorum, Evangelistic Edition with Tunes #178

Maynard's Selected Sabbath School Hymns. 4th ed. #d36

Melodies of the Church #d211

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Methodist Social Hymn Book #61

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Mission Songs #[15]

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Montreat Hymns #115

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New Christian Hymn and Tune Book #677

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New Christian Hymn and Tune Book #677

New Victory #a160

Notes of Glad Tidings No. 1 #d20

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Oberlin social & sabbath school hymn book #14

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Our New Hymnal #294

Popular Hymns, revised #247

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Praise Book #76

Prison Hymn Book #d68

Psalmista #d63

Psalms and Hymns Adapted to Social, Private and Public Worship in the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. #d170

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Psalms and Hymns and Spiritual Songs #667

Psalms and Hymns for the Worship of God #d167

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Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Original and Selected. (14th stereotype ed.) #41

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Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Original and Selected. (7th ed.) #S215

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Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs #B41

Psalterlust fuer die Christliche Jugend #d35

Psalterlust fuer die Christliche Jugend. Rev. #ad35

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Revival Gems #170

Revival Hymns #d13

Revival Hymns #d32

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Revival Melodies, or Songs of Zion. #II.61

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Rose of Sharon Hymns #309

Sabbath School Gems #d35

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Sabbath School Gems of Music and Poetry #23

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Sabbath Songs and Spiritual Hymns #84a

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Sacred lyrics, or Select hymns #5

Sacred Melodies #d30

Sacred Melodies (Revised) #d54

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Sacred Melodies for Social Worship #327

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Sacred Songs for Family and Social Worship #80

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Sacred Songs for Family and Social Worship #94

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Sacred Songs for Social Worship #158

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Salvation Army Music #336

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Salvation Army Songs #113

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Salvation Echoes #56b

School Carols #d56

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Seamen's Hymns #235

Seamen's Hymns and Devotional Assistant #d141

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Selah #187a

Select Hymns #d42

Select Hymns #d100

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Select Hymns and Psalms #285

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Select Hymns #112

Select Songs #d20

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Sifted Wheat #35

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Social Hymn Book #148

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Social Psalmist #235

Songland Melodies ... a New Song Book for Revivals #d13

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Songs for All #82

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Songs for Service #123

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Songs for Social and Public Worship #1017

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Songs for the Lord's House #215

Songs for the New Life #d125

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Songs for the Sanctuary, or Hymns and Tunes for Christian Worship #503

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Songs for the Sanctuary; or Psalms and Hymns for Christian Worship (Baptist Ed.) #503

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Songs for the Sanctuary; or, Psalms and Hymns for Christian Worship (Words only) #503

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Songs for the Sanctuary #503

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Songs for the Sanctuary #503

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Songs for the Sanctuary #503

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Songs for the Service of Prayer #359

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Songs of Beulah #20

Songs of Calvary and Pentecost #d27

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Songs of Conquest #168

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Songs of Devotion for Christian Assocations #199

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Songs of Help #210

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Songs of Pilgrimage #1505

Songs of Praise Number One #128b

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Songs of Praise with Tunes #211

Songs of Salvation and Service. #d43

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Songs of Salvation and Service. Revised #318

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