Bible Songs — Missionary Songs

Pray for Reapers

Saints of God, the dawn is bright'ning,

No. 1242
Tune PRAY FOR REAPERS.
Words Anon.
Music D. S. Hakes.
Key D major
Singing key C major
Time 3/4
4 stanzas

Words

Saints of God, the dawn is bright'ning,Tokens of the coming Lord;O'er the earth the fields are whit'ning,Louder rings the Master's word:Pray for reapers, Pray for reapers,In the harvest of the Lord.Pray for reapers, Pray for reapers,In the harvest of the Lord.

Feebly now they toil in sadness,Weeping o'er the waste around,Slowly gath'ring grains of gladness,While their echoing cries resound:Pray that reapers, Pray that reapers,In God's harvest may abound.Pray that reapers, Pray that reapers,In God's harvest may abound.

Now, O Lord, fulfill thy pleasure,Breathe upon thy chosen band,And with pentecostal measure,Send forth reapers in our land;Faithful reapers, Faithful reapers,Gath'ring sheaves for thy right hand.Faithful reapers, Faithful reapers,Gath'ring sheaves for thy right hand.

Soon shall end the time of weeping,Soon the reaping time will come,Heav'n and earth together keepingGod's eternal harvest home;Saints and angels, Saints and angels,Shout the world's great harvest home.Saints and angels, Saints and angels,Shout the world's great harvest home.

About this hymn

As printed As printed: no running head on p. 460 (the page opens with the hymn); hymn number «1242» (large, left), title «Pray for Reapers.» centred (condensed capitals and small capitals, «for» wholly in small capitals); under it, centred in two lines, the epigraph «"The harvest truly is great, but the laborers are few; pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth laborers into his harvest."—Luke 10 : 2.» (old-style figures); on the next line «ANON.» at the left (words) and «D. S. HAKES.» at the right (music, capitals and small capitals). No meter, no tune name other than the title, no reference line. All four stanzas are interlinear, numbered «1.»–«4.» in system 1 only, and run through all four systems; systems 3 and 4 carry the same words («Pray for reapers, … In the harvest of the Lord.» etc.) to different music, and no «CHORUS.» or «REFRAIN.» is printed. Under the music, centred: «Copyrighted 1878 by J. E. White.». Each printed line of words carries two verse lines; they are given here one verse line per line. The words divided under the notes are joined here («Fee-bly», «ful-fill», «up-on», «whit-'ning», «gath-'ring», «echo-ing», «pen-te-cost-al», «to-geth-er», «e-ter-nal», «har-vest», «a-bound», «Gath-'ring» → «Feebly», «fulfill», «upon», «whit'ning», «gath'ring», «echoing», «pentecostal», «together», «eternal», «harvest», «abound», «Gath'ring»); the divisions are in `lyrics_syllables.txt`. Words set without a word space in the tight lines («Breatheup-on», «Whiletheirecho-ing», «Heav'nandearth», «Saintsand», «har-vesthome») are separated. The print sets a thin space before «;» and «:»; it is closed up here; curly quotes and apostrophes are written straight («bright'ning», «O'er», «Heav'n», «God's», «world's»). Spelling and punctuation are the print's.