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<h2>GOD CALLING YET</h2>
<p align="center"><h3>&#8220;Behold, I stand at the door and knock.&#8221; Revelation 3:20</h3></p>
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<td><img src="./hymns/hymns_img/img_t_e_teerstegen_g.gif" alt="Gerhard Tersteegen (1697-1769)" width="138.666666666667" height="181.333333333333"></td>
<td><em>Words:</em> <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_t_e_tersteegen_g.html" target="_blank">Gerhard Tersteegen</a>, 1735 (<em>Gott rufet noch, sollt ich nicht endlich hören</em>); translated from German to English by <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_f_i_findlater_sb.html" target="_blank">Sarah Borthwick Findlater</a>, 1855.
<p><em>Music:</em> &#8220;Breslau,&#8221; <em>As Hymnodus Sacer</em> (Leipzig, Germany: 1625) </p><p><table><tr><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_mid/mid_b_breslau.mid" target = "_blank"><img border=0 src="./hymns/hymns_img/notes.gif"><br><b>Play MIDI</b></a></td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</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>
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<li>&#8220;Hamburg,&#8221; <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_m_a_mason_l.html" target="_blank">Lowell Mason</a>, 1824 </p><p><table><tr><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_mid/mid_h_hamburg.mid" target = "_blank"><img border=0 src="./hymns/hymns_img/notes.gif"><br><b>Play MIDI</b></a></td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</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>
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<p>God calling yet; shall I not hear?<br>
Earth&#8217;s pleasures shall I still hold dear?<br>
Shall life&#8217;s swift passing years all fly,<br>
And still my soul in slumber lie?</p>
<p>God calling yet; shall I not rise?<br>
Can I His loving voice despise,<br>
And basely His kind care repay?<br>
He calls me still; can I delay?</p>
<p>God calling yet, and shall He knock,<br>
And I my heart the closer lock?<br>
He still is waiting to receive,<br>
And shall I dare His Spirit grieve?</p>
<p>Ah, yield Him all; in Him confide;<br>
Where but with Him doth peace abide?<br>
Break loose, let earthly bonds be riven,<br>
And let the spirit rise to heaven.</p>
<p>God calling yet; I cannot stay;<br>
My heart I yield without delay;<br>
Vain world, farewell! from thee I part;<br>
The voice of God hath reached my heart.</p>
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