The future is calling for service sincere

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The future is calling for service sincere

Author: John R. Clements
Tune: [The future is calling for service sincere]
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1 The future is calling for service sincere;
The future is calling so each one may hear.
The call is a challenge to dare and to do,
The call is a challenge to brave ones and true.

Refrain:
The future is calling, Endeav’rer, to you;
The future is calling to much that is new;
For Christ and the Church, and the world with its need,
There’s a sacrifice call that is service indeed.

2 The future is calling, the call is of God;
The future is calling, no reed, but a rod;
The call is heroic, brave hearts and stout hands,
The call is heroic, it touches far lands. [Refrain]

3 The future is calling, the winepress runs red;
The future is calling ‘mid dying and dead.
The hour is for service, nor glory nor gain;
The hour is for service till Jesus shall reign. [Refrain]

4 The future is calling a bugle blast strong;
The future is calling for short or for long;
Till night rides the waves of an unending sea,
The call is to service: To you and to me. [Refrain]

Source: Williston Hymns #28

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Author: John R. Clements

John R. Clements was born in County Armagh, Ireland 28 November 1868 and was brought to the United States at the age of two years. He worked at the age of thirteen as a retail grocery clerk and had a successful wholesale grocery business. He began writing poetry when he was young. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916) Go to person page >

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