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Appears in 900 hymnals Topics: Invitation and Decision First Line: There's a wideness in God's mercy Refrain First Line: He is calling, "Come to me!" Used With Tune: [There's a wideness in God's mercy]

God Calling Yet

Author: J. borthwick Appears in 422 hymnals Topics: Invitation and Decision First Line: God calling yet! Shall I not hear? Refrain First Line: God is calling, calling yet Used With Tune: [God calling yet! Shall I not hear?]

Why Not Now?

Author: El Nathan Appears in 245 hymnals Topics: Invitation and Decision First Line: While we pray and while we plead Refrain First Line: Why not now? Why not now Used With Tune: [While we pray and while we plead]

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[Just as I am, without one plea]

Appears in 1,061 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: William B. Bradbury Topics: Invitation and Decision Incipit: 12335 43234 355 Used With Text: Just as I Am

[I can hear my Savior calling]

Appears in 491 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: J. S. Norris Topics: Invitation and Decision Incipit: 51334 33257 21322 Used With Text: Where He Leads Me

[While we pray and while we plead]

Appears in 166 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: C. C. Case Topics: Invitation and Decision Incipit: 51727 65365 42543 Used With Text: Why Not Now?

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When Are You Coming Home?

Author: T. O. Chisholm Hymnal: Uplifting Songs #149 (1917) Topics: Invitation and Decision First Line: O soul far away in the wilderness straying Refrain First Line: When, when when are you coming? Lyrics: 1 O soul far away in the wilderness straying, When are you coming home? The Spirit is pleading, and lov’d ones are praying, When are you coming home? In vain on the husks of the world you are feeding, In vain you seek rest, your feet weary and bleeding, Your rest is not there, it is Jesus you’re needing, When are you coming home? Refrain: When, when, when are you coming? When are you coming home? A feast He will spread, as a son to receive you, When are you coming home? 2 How long you’ve neglected God’s gift of salvation! When are you coming home? How often you’ve slighted His great invitation; When are you coming home? O think of your childhood, of life’s fair beginning, And think of the years you have wasted with sinning, And think of the cross with its infinite meaning, When are you coming home? [Refrain] 3 Your Father in heaven is looking and yearning, When are you coming home? His welcome and pardon await your returning, When are you coming home? The night fast approacheth, the shadows are falling, And ere long will follow the darkness appalling, O listen for God is still tenderly calling, When are you coming home? [Refrain] Tune Title: [O soul far away in the wilderness straying]

More Like the Master

Author: C. H. G. Hymnal: New Awakening Songs #102 (1936) Topics: Invitation and Decision First Line: More like the Master I would ever be Refrain First Line: Take Thou my heart, I would be Thine alone Languages: English Tune Title: [More like the Master I would ever be]

More Like Jesus

Author: Dr. L. M. Zimmerman Hymnal: New Awakening Songs #128 (1936) Topics: Invitation and Decision First Line: We would be more like Jesus Refrain First Line: We would be more like Jesus Languages: English Tune Title: [We would be more like Jesus]

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Jane Borthwick

1813 - 1897 Person Name: J. borthwick Topics: Invitation and Decision Author of "God Calling Yet" in Uplifting Songs Miss Jane Borthwick, the translator of this hymn and many others, is of Scottish family. Her sister (Mrs. Eric Findlater) and herself edited "Hymns from the Land of Luther" (1854). She also wrote "Thoughts for Thoughtful Hours (1859), and has contributed numerous poetical pieces to the "Family Treasury," under the signature "H.L.L." --Annotations of the Hymnal, Charles Hutchins, M.A. 1872. ================================= Borthwick, Jane, daughter of James Borthwick, manager of the North British Insurance Office, Edinburgh, was born April 9, 1813, at Edinburgh, where she still resides. Along with her sister Sarah (b. Nov. 26, 1823; wife of the Rev. Eric John Findlater, of Lochearnhead, Perthshire, who died May 2, 1886) she translated from the German Hymns from the Land of Luther, 1st Series, 1854; 2nd, 1855; 3rd, 1858; 4th, 1862. A complete edition was published in 1862, by W. P. Kennedy, Edinburgh, of which a reprint was issued by Nelson & Sons, 1884. These translations, which represent relatively a larger proportion of hymns for the Christian Life, and a smaller for the Christian Year than one finds in Miss Winkworth, have attained a success as translations, and an acceptance in hymnals only second to Miss Winkworth's. Since Kennedy's Hymnologia Christiana, 1863, in England, and the Andover Sabbath Hymn Book, 1858, in America, made several selections therefrom, hardly a hymnal in England or America has appeared without containing some of these translations. Miss Borthwick has kindly enabled us throughout this Dictionary to distinguish between the 61 translations by herself and the 53 by her sister. Among the most popular of Miss Borthwick's may be named "Jesus still lead on," and "How blessed from the bonds of sin;" and of Mrs. Findlater's "God calling yet!" and "Rejoice, all ye believers." Under the signature of H. L. L. Miss Borthwick has also written various prose works, and has contributed many translations and original poems to the Family Treasury, a number of which were collected and published in 1857, as Thoughts for Thoughtful Hours (3rd edition, enlarged, 1867). She also contributed several translations to Dr. Pagenstecher's Collection, 1864, five of which are included in the new edition of the Hymns from the Land of Luther, 1884, pp. 256-264. Of her original hymns the best known are “Come, labour on” and "Rest, weary soul.” In 1875 she published a selection of poems translated from Meta Heusser-Schweizer, under the title of Alpine Lyrics, which were incorporated in the 1884 edition of the Hymns from the Land of Luther. She died in 1897. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) ======================== Borthwick, Jane, p. 163, ii. Other hymns from Miss Borthwick's Thoughtful Hours, 1859, are in common use:— 1. And is the time approaching. Missions. 2. I do not doubt Thy wise and holy will. Faith. 3. Lord, Thou knowest all the weakness. Confidence. 4. Rejoice, my fellow pilgrim. The New Year. 5. Times are changing, days are flying. New Year. Nos. 2-5 as given in Kennedy, 1863, are mostly altered from the originals. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907) ============= Works: Hymns from the Land of Luther

Adelaide A. Pollard

1862 - 1934 Person Name: A. A. P. Topics: Invitation and Decision Author of "Have Thine Own Way, Lord" in New Awakening Songs Not to be confused with Adelaide A. Procter

George C. Stebbins

1846 - 1945 Person Name: Geo. C. Stebbins Topics: Invitation and Decision Composer of "[Have Thine own way, Lord]" in New Awakening Songs Stebbins studied music in Buffalo and Rochester, New York, then became a singing teacher. Around 1869, he moved to Chicago, Illinois, to join the Lyon and Healy Music Company. He also became the music director at the First Baptist Church in Chicago. It was in Chicago that he met the leaders in the Gospel music field, such as George Root, Philip Bliss, & Ira Sankey. At age 28, Stebbins moved to Boston, Massachusetts, where he became music director at the Claredon Street Baptist Church; the pastor there was Adoniram Gordon. Two years later, Stebbins became music director at Tremont Temple in Boston. Shortly thereafter, he became involved in evangelism campaigns with Moody and others. Around 1900, Stebbins spent a year as an evangelist in India, Egypt, Italy, Palestine, France and England. (www.hymntime.com/tch)

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