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 >

Tune

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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The Otterbein Hymnal #216

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The People's Hymnal #216

The People's Praise Book or Carmina Sanctorum #d128

The Pilgrim's Harp #d49

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The Plymouth Sabbath School Collection of Hymns and Tunes #184

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The Portfolio of Sunday School Songs #68

The Presbyterian Hymnal #164

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The Presbyterian Hymnal #560

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The Presbyterian Hymnal #560

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The Psalmist #438

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The Psalmist #438

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The Psalmody #404

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The Psalms and Hymns, with the Doctrinal Standards and Liturgy of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church in North America #H259

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The Quartet #321

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The Quiver of Sacred Song #131

The Sabbath School Hymn Book #d60

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The Sabbath School #78

The Sacred Lute #d79

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The Sacred Lyre #140

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The Saint's Harp #11

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The Salvation Soldiers' Song Book #7

The Selah Song Book (Das Sela Gesangbuch) #d121

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The Selah Song Book (Das Sela Gesangbuch) (2nd ed) #292a

The Selah Song Book. Word ed. #d77

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The Seventh-Day Adventist Hymn and Tune Book #418

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The Social and Sabbath School Hymn-Book. (5th ed.) #14

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The Social Psalmist #75

The Soldier's Hymn Book. 2nd ed. #d45

The Song Harvest #d21

The South Western Psalmist #d82

The Southern Psalmist #d170

The Southern Psalmist. New ed. #d178

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The Standard Church Hymnal #338

The Star of the East #d39

The Sunday School Hymnal #d48

The Union Harp and Revival Chorister. Rev ed. #d86

The Vestry Harp #d42

The Vestry Hymn and Tune Book #d89

The Vestry Hymn Book #d96

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The Voice of melody #131

The Voice of Praise #d55

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The Voice of Praise #833

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The Welcome #52

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The Wesleyan Methodist Hymnal #203

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The Wesleyan Psalmist, or Songs of Canaan #59a

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The World Evangel #230

Tidings of Glory #d20

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Treasury of Song #280

Two Hundred and Fifty-two Familiar Hymns #d45

Union Prayer Meeting Hymns #d52

Union Prayer Meeting Hymns #d54

Uplifting Songs, New and Old #d44

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Vestry Chimes #90

Victory #160

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Young Singer's Friend #201

Zion's Harp #d32

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Zion's Refreshing Showers #114b

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