Are You Ready?

Words:
J. W. Slaughenhaupt
Music:
E. S. Lorenz

Sheet music

  1. 1Soon the ev'ning shadows falling,Close the day of mortal life;Soon the hand of death appalling,Draws thee from its weary strife.Are you ready? (Are you ready?)Are you ready? (Are you ready?)'Tis the Spirit calling: why delay?Are you ready? (Are you ready?)Are you ready? (Are you ready?)Do not linger longer: Come today.
  2. 2Soon the awful trumpet sounding,Calls thee to the judgment throne:Now prepare, for love abounding,Yet has left thee not alone.Are you ready? (Are you ready?)Are you ready? (Are you ready?)'Tis the Spirit calling: why delay?Are you ready? (Are you ready?)Are you ready? (Are you ready?)Do not linger longer: Come today.
  3. 3O, how fatal ‘tis to linger!Are you ready– ready now–Ready, should death's icy fingerLay its chill upon thy brow?Are you ready? (Are you ready?)Are you ready? (Are you ready?)'Tis the Spirit calling: why delay?Are you ready? (Are you ready?)Are you ready? (Are you ready?)Do not linger longer: Come today.
  4. 4Price less love and free salvationFreely still are offered thee:Yield no longer to temptation,But from sin and sorrow flee.Are you ready? (Are you ready?)Are you ready? (Are you ready?)'Tis the Spirit calling: why delay?Are you ready? (Are you ready?)Are you ready? (Are you ready?)Do not linger longer: Come today.

In the hymnals

  • Written in 1878, the words are in 45 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →

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