45 lines
3.1 KiB
HTML
45 lines
3.1 KiB
HTML
<html><head>
|
|
<script src="../../js/basepath.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
|
|
<script src="./js/nav.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
|
|
<script src="./js/MainHeader.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
|
|
<title>BLB Hymns</title>
|
|
<h2>MUST I GO, AND EMPTY HANDED?</h2>
|
|
<p align="center"><h3>“As long as it is day, we must do the work of Him Who sent Me. Night is coming, when no one can work.” John 9:4</h3></p>
|
|
<center><b>Hymns Supplied Through the Gracious Generosity<br>of the </b><a href="http://www.hymntime.com/tch/" target = "_blank"><b>Cyber Hymnal Website</b></a><br><br><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/cyberhymnal_info.html" target = "_blank">Information about Cyber Hymnal Website</a></center>
|
|
<hr>
|
|
<div class="just">
|
|
<p><img src="./hymns/hymns_img/img_s_t_stebbins_gc.jpg" alt="George Coles Stebbins (1846-1945)" align="right" hspace="15" vspace="5" width="138" height="205.333333333333"><em>Words:</em> Charles Carroll Luther, 1877.</p>
|
|
<p>Charles Luther <!-- May 17, 1847-Nov. 4, 1924 --> (1847-1924) was a journalist and lay evangelist before being ordained as a Baptist minister in 1886. He wrote about 25 hymn texts. In 1877, he heard Rev. A.G. Upham relate the story of a young man who was about to die. He’d only been a Christian for a month, and sorrowed because he’d had so little time to serve the Lord. He said, “I am not afraid to die; Jesus saves me now. But must I go empty handed?” This
|
|
incident prompted the writing of the hymn; Stebbins wrote the music when Luther gave him the words. The complete hymn was first published in <em>Gospel Hymns No. 3</em>, 1878.</p>
|
|
<p><em>Music:</em> <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_s_t_stebbins_gc.html" target="_blank">George Coles Stebbins</a> (1846-1945) </p><p><table><tr><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_mid/mid_m_mustigoa.mid" target = "_blank"><img border=0 src="./hymns/hymns_img/notes.gif"><br><b>Play MIDI</b></a></td><td> </td><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/score_info.html" target = "_blank"><b>Link to obtain<br>musical score info</b></a></td></tr></table></p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<hr>
|
|
<div class="lyrics">
|
|
<p>“Must I go, and empty handed,”<br>
|
|
Thus my dear Redeemer meet?<br>
|
|
Not one day of service give Him,<br>
|
|
Lay no trophy at His feet?</p>
|
|
<p class="refrain">Refrain</p>
|
|
<p class="refrain">“Must I go, and empty handed?”<br>
|
|
Must I meet my Savior so?<br>
|
|
Not one soul with which to greet Him,<br>
|
|
Must I empty handed go?</p>
|
|
<p>Not at death I shrink or falter,<br>
|
|
For my Savior saves me now;<br>
|
|
But to meet Him empty handed,<br>
|
|
Thought of that now clouds my brow.</p>
|
|
<p class="refrain">Refrain</p>
|
|
<p>O the years in sinning wasted,<br>
|
|
Could I but recall them now,<br>
|
|
I would give them to my Savior,<br>
|
|
To His will I’d gladly bow.</p>
|
|
<p class="refrain">Refrain</p>
|
|
<p>O ye saints, arouse, be earnest,<br>
|
|
Up and work while yet ’tis day;<br>
|
|
Ere the night of death o’er take thee,<br>
|
|
Strived for souls while still you may.</p>
|
|
<p class="refrain">Refrain</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<hr>
|
|
<script src="./js/MainFooter.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
|