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"Come!" 'Tis Jesus Gently Calling

🎹 Key of A♭ 🕐 4/4 90 BPM 📜 4 verses
Copyrights:
  • Lyrics: Annie S. Ormsby, 1874 (public domain)
  • Music: William J. Kirkpatrick, 1882 (public domain)
  • Arrangement by OpenPsalm, 2026 and released under the CC-BY 4.0 license
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Verse 1 "Come!" 'tis Jesus gently calling, Ye with care and toil oppressed,
With your guilt howe'er appalling— Come, and I will give you rest.
For your sin He once has suffered, On the cross the work was done,
And the word by God now uttered To each weary soul is "Come!"
Verse 2 "Come!" the Father's house stands open, With its love and light and song;
And returning to that Father, All to you may now belong.
From sin's distant land of famine, Toiling neath the midday sun,
To a Father's house of plenty, And a Father's welcome, "Come!"
Verse 3 "Come!" for night is gath'ring quickly O'er the world's fastfleeting day;
If you linger till the darkness You will surely miss your way.
And still waiting— sadly waiting, Till the day its course has run,
With His patience unabating Jesus lingers for you— "Come!"
Verse 4 "Come!" for angel hosts are musing O'er this sight so strangely sad:
God beseeching— man refusing To be made forever glad!
From the world and its delusion Now our voices rise as one;
While we shout God's invitation, Heav'n itself reechoes "Come!"