212 – ‘Tis Almost Time for the Lord to Come

212 – ‘Tis Almost Time for the Lord to Come

1

‘Tis almost time for the Lord to come,

I hear the people say;

The stars of heaven are growing dim,

It must be the breaking of the day.

Refrain

O it must be the breaking of the day!

O it must be the breaking of the day!

The night is almost gone,

The day is coming on;

O it must be the breaking of the day!

2

The signs foretold in the sun and moon,

In earth and sea and sky,

Aloud proclaim to all mankind,

The coming of the Master draweth nigh.

3

It must be time for the waiting church

To cast her pride away,

With girded loins and burning lamps,

To look for the breaking of the day.

4

Go quickly out in the streets and lanes

And in the broad highway,

And call the maimed, the halt, and blind,

To be ready for the breaking of the day.