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[Time is earnest, passing by]

Appears in 5 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Asa Hull Incipit: 35651 23432 17123 Used With Text: Be In Earnest

Be In Earnest

Appears in 44 hymnals First Line: Time is earnest, passing by Used With Tune: [Time is earnest, passing by]

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Time is earnest, passing by

Author: Mrs. Knapp Hymnal: The Canadian Hymnal #84 (1895) Languages: English Tune Title: [Time is earnest, passing by]

Time is earnest, passing by

Author: Mrs. Knapp Hymnal: The Canadian Hymnal #84 (1889) Languages: English Tune Title: [Time is earnest, passing by]

Author: Sidney Dyer Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #11385 Meter: 7.7.7.7 First Line: Time is earnest, passing by Lyrics: 1 Time is earnest, passing by; Death is earnest, drawing nigh. Sinner! wilt thou trifling be? Time and death appeal to thee. 2 Life is earnest; when ’tis o’er Thou returnest nevermore. Soon to meet eternity, Wilt thou never serious be? 3 Heaven is earnest; solemnly Float its voices down to thee. Oh, thou mortal, art thou gay, Sporting through thine earthly day? 4 Hell is earnest; fiercely roll Burning billows near thy soul. Woe for thee! if thou abide Unredeemed, unsanctified! 5 God is earnest: kneel and pray, Ere thy season pass away— Ere He set His judgment throne, Vengeance ready, mercy gone. 6 Christ is earnest, bids thee "Come!" Paid thy spirit’s priceless sum. Wilt thou spurn the Savior’s love, Pleading with thee from above? 7 Thou refusest! wretched one! Thou despisest God’s dear Son! Madness! dying sinner, turn! Lest His wrath within thee burn. 8 When thy pleasures all depart What will soothe thy fainting heart? Friendless, desolate, alone, Entering a world unknown. 9 Oh, be earnest! loitering Thou wilt perish: lingering Be no longer—rise and flee; Lo! thy Savior waits for thee. Languages: English Tune Title: MERCED

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Phoebe Palmer Knapp

1839 - 1908 Person Name: Mrs. Knapp Author of "Time is earnest, passing by" in The Canadian Hymnal As a young girl Phoebe Palmer Knapp (b. New York, NY, 1839; d. Poland Springs, ME, 1908) displayed great musical talent; she composed and sang children’s song at an early age. The daughter of the Methodist evangelist Walter C. Palmer, she was married to John Fairfield Knapp at the age of sixteen. Her husband was a founder of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and after his death, she shared her considerable inherited wealth with various charitable organizations. She composed over five hundred gospel songs, of which the tunes for “Blessed Assurance” and “Open the Gates of the Temple” are still popular today. Bert Polman

Asa Hull

1828 - 1907 Composer of "MERCED" in The Cyber Hymnal Asa Hull USA 1828-1907. Born in Keene, NY, he became a music publisher in New York City. He married Emma F Atherton, and they had a daughter, Harriett. He wrote many tunes and authored temperance rallying songs. He published 33 works, of which 21 were songbooks, between 1863-1895. He died in Philadelphia, PA. John Perry

Sidney Dyer

1814 - 1898 Author of "Time Is Earnest" in The Cyber Hymnal Dyer, Sidney, who served in the U. S. Army from 1831 to c. 1840, is a native of White Creek, Washington County, New York, where he was born in 1814. On leaving the army he was ordained a Baptist Minister in 1842, and acted first as a Missionary to the Choctaws, then as Pastor in Indianapolis, Indiana (1852), and as Secretary to the Baptist Publication Society, Phila. (1859). He has published sundry works, and in the Southwestern Psalmist, 1851, 16 of his hymns are found. The following are later and undated:— 1. Go, preach the blest salvation. Missions. In the Baptist Praise Book, 1871, and The Baptist Hymn & Tune Book, 1871. 2. Great Framer [Maker] of unnumbered worlds. National Humiliation. In the Boston Unitarian Hymn [and Tune] Book, 1868, and others. 3. When faint and weary toiling. Work whilst it is day. In the Baptist Praise Book, 1871. 4. Work, for the night is coming. Duty. This hymn is in wider use than the foregoing, but though often ascribed to Dyer, is really by Miss Anna L. Walker, of Canada, who published a volume of Poems, 1868. S. Dyer, in 1854, wrote a hymn on the same subject for a Sunday-school in Indianapolis, and hence the confusion between the two. In 1882 a cento beginning with the same stanza was given in Whiting's (English) Hymns for the Church Catholic, No. 366. Of this cento, stanzas i., ii. are by Miss Walker; and stanzas iii., iv. by Miss Whiting, daughter of the editor of that collection. [Rev.F. M. Bird, M.A.] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) ================== Dyer, S., p. 317, ii. Additional hymns by Dr. Dyer are given in the Baptist Sursum Corda, Phila., 1898, with the following dates :— 1. Enter, Jesus bids thee welcome. Invitation. 1883. 2. No more with horrors veil the tomb. Burial. 1897. Dr. Dyer d. in 1898. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907) ================= Dyer, Sidney. (White Creek, New York, February 11, 1814--December 22, 1898, Philadelphia). Baptist. Indiana State University, honorary A.M. ; Bucknell University, honorary Ph.D. Missionary to the Choctaws early in his career. Pastorates at Brownsville, New York, 1842; Indianapolis, 1852-1859. District secretary of the American Baptist Publication Society, Philadelphia, 1859-1885. Author of eight religious books designed for children, two volumes of verse: Voices of Nature (Louisville, 1849), and Songs and Ballads (Indianapolis, 1857). Wrote a large number of hymns in Sunday School as well as church collections. In 1851, he published The South Western Psalmist (Louisville), which became known as Dyer's Psalmist. Of 467 hymns, 16 are by Dyer. Also wrote a prize-winning hymn "O wondrous land! thy onward march sublime" for the Jubilee of the American Baptist Home Mission Society which was help in New York in 1882. This 66-stanza hymn may be found in Baptist Home Missions in North America: Including a Full Report of the Proceedings and Address of the Jubilee Meeting . . . (New York: Baptist Home Mission Rooms, 1883). "Work, for the night is coming," written by Annie L. (Walker) Coghill, was sometimes ascribed to Dyer. The confusion arose when, in 1854, Dyer wrote a text on the same subject for a Sunday School in Indianapolis. --Deborah Carlton Loftis, DNAH Archives