← The World's Harvest Hymns and Tunes (1888) · No. 1263

The World's Harvest

Servants of Jesus, the day is at hand

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Servants of Jesus, the day is at hand,Fields for our labor invitingly stand;Mark ye the signals, they widely diffuseTokens of the coming harvest, joyful the news.

Chorus.

Pray for help, Christian, pray, pray, pray,Yes, pray for help in the fields white to-day;Gather the sheaves, bring the world's harvest home,Glorious and blessed harvest, come, Saviour, come.

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Work is abundant, the promise is great,Few are the reapers, in sadness they wait;Patiently toiling, yet daily they cry,Pray ye that our Lord and Master, reapers supply.

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Men who are faithful are fainting to-day,Worn with their labors, they fall by the way;Fill ye the ranks, and with heart and with handGather in the blessed harvest, Christ gives command.

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Hasten the time when the reapers shall sing,And with rejoicing, their sheaves homeward bring;Saints with the angels together shall meet:Glorious and blessed meeting round Jesus' feet.

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From "Songs of Gratitude," by permission.