Come to the Saviour, make no delay

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Come to the Saviour, make no delay Come to the Saviour
Vorm	Lied met refrein
Herkomst
Taal	Engels
Land	Verenigde Staten
Periode	1870
Tekst
Dichter	George Frederick Root
Metrisch	9-10-9-6
Muziek
Componist	George Frederick Root
Melodie	Come to the Savior, make no delay
Solmisatie	5-6-5-3-5-1-2-1-2-1-6
Liedbundels
Gospel Hymns 636
Sacred Songs & Solos 1165

Come to the Saviour, make no delay (Come to the Saviour) is een lied geschreven en op muziek gezet door George Frederick Root.

Vertalingen

Het lied is vertaald door

• Meier Salomon Bromet: Kom tot uw Heiland, toef langer niet
• C.S. Adama van Scheltema: Kom tot uw Heiland, toef langer niet (Adama van Scheltema)

Opname beluisteren

• Pianoversie, met Engelse tekst:

Tekst

Come to the Saviour
1 Come to the Saviour, make no delay;
Here in His word He’s shown us the way;
Here in oud midst He’s standing today,
Tenderly saying, “Come!”

chorus:
Joyful, joyful will the meeting be,
When from sin our hearts are pure and free;
And we shall gather, Saviour, with Thee,
In our eternal home.

2 “Suffer the children!” Oh, hear His voice,
Let ev’ry heart leap forth and rejoice,
And let us freely make Him our choice;
Do not delay, but come.

chorus

3 Think once again, He’s with us today;
Heed now His blest commands, and obey;
Hear now His accents tenderly say,
“Will you, my children, come?”

chorus

Ontstaan

Het lied is verschenen in Geo. F. Root, The Prize. A Collection of Songs, Hymns, Chants, Anthems and Concert Pieces for the Sunday School, Cincinnati: John Church & Co. [1870], p. 5.
In The Prize tekent Root aan: „By “Coming to Jesus” is not meant a literal coming, like a child running to his father, for He is omnipresent and always near us. “In Him we live and have our being.” Nor is it turning our thoughts to Him and picturing His divine form to our imaginations while we do not wish to do His will. No; we are coming to Him only as we are becoming like Him, and the process is this: First, a change of heart or purpose, for naturally no one wants to serve Him; every one “must be born again” and when we are born again we are like other babes, weak and feeble, hardly perhaps being able to do more than wish we could desire to serve Him. Now commences the coming to Him, and every boy and girl who to-day, from a wish to be a Christian, is faithful, attentive and obedient, or is kind and gentle, or resists temptation to do wrong, gets a little nearer to the Lord.”

Externe links

• hymnary.org

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