Now Is the Accepted Time

Representative Text

1 While life prolongs its precious light
Mercy is found, and peace is given,
But soon, ah! soon, approaching night
Shall blot out every hope of heaven.

2 While God invites, how blest the day,
How sweet the Gospel’s charming sound;
Come, sinners, haste, oh, haste away,
While yet a pardoning God is found.

3 Soon, borne on time’s most rapid wing,
Shall death command you to the grave:
Before his bar your spirits bring,
And none be found to hear or save.

4 In that lone land of deep despair,
No Sabbath’s heavenly light shall rise--
No God regard your bitter prayer,
No Saviour call you to the skies.



Source: Living Hymns: for use in the Sabbath School, Christian Endeavor Meetings, the church & home #290

Author: Timothy Dwight

Timothy Dwight (b. Northampton, MA, 1752; d. Philadelphia, PA, 1817) was a grandson of Jonathan Edwards who became a Congregationalist pastor, a Revolutionary War army chaplain, a tutor and professor at Yale College, and president of Yale from 1795 to 1817. As president he continued to teach and serve as chaplain and was instrumental in improving both the academic and the spiritual life of the college. Bert Polman… Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: While life prolongs its precious light
Title: Now Is the Accepted Time
Author: Timothy Dwight
Meter: 8.8.8.8
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

Tune

HEBRON (Mason)


HAMBURG

Lowell Mason (PHH 96) composed HAMBURG (named after the German city) in 1824. The tune was published in the 1825 edition of Mason's Handel and Haydn Society Collection of Church Music. Mason indicated that the tune was based on a chant in the first Gregorian tone. HAMBURG is a very simple tune with…

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A Chord #d122

A Collection of Choral Hymns for the ... Hanson Place Methodist Episcopal Congregation #d209

A Collection of Evergreen Hymns, for All the People. New ed. #d160

A Collection of Hymns for Public, Social and Domestic Worship #d967

A Collection of Hymns for Public, Social and Domestic Worship #d973

A Collection of Hymns for Public, Social, and Domestic Worship #d974

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A Collection of Hymns for Public, Social, and Domestic Worship #354

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A Collection of Hymns for the use of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church in America #329

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A Collection of Hymns, for the use of the United Brethren in Christ #176

A Collection of Psalms and Hymns Suited to the Various Occasions of Public Worship #d363

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A Collection of Psalms and Hymns #158

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A Collection of Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs #158

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A Collection of Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs #158

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A Collection of Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs #394

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A Collection of Spiritual Hymns #145

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A Manual of Devotion and Hymns for the House of Refuge, City of New York #179

A New Book of Hymns for the Use of the Methodist Episcopal and Other Churches #d270

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A New Selection of Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs #689

A Selection of Hymns, from Various Authors #d431

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A Selection of Hymns #11

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American Psalmody #240

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Baptist Chorals #40

Baptist Songs with Music #d224

Battle Songs of the Cross #d230

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Bilhorn's Male Chorus No. l #95

Billows of Song #d211

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Bright Melodies #228

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Chapel Melodies #205

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Chiming Voices #180c

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Choral Echoes from the Church of God in All Ages #69

Christ in Song #d667

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Christian Melodies #23

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Christian Melodies #23

Christian Psalms and Hymns to Aid in Public and Private Devotion #d1040

Christian Work-songs #d208

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Church Chorals and Choir Studies #22

Church Melodies, a Collection of Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs #d1165

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Church Melodies #71

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Church music #XL

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Church music #277

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Church Pastorals, hymns and tunes for public and social worship #339

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Church Psalmist #P88b

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Church Psalmist #P88b

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Church Psalmist #P88b

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Church Psalmody #P88.2

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Church Psalmody #P88b

Companion of Praise for the Sunday School, Family and Prayer Meeting #d227

Compilation of Hymns for the Use of the Churches of the Christian Union #d814

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Conference Hymns #T9

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Conference Hymns #131

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Crowning Glory No. 2 #77

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Crystal Gems for the Sabbath School #29

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Deutsches Lieder- und Melodienbuch #a136

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Devotional Melodies #97

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Evangelical Hymnal #206

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Evangelical Hymns #159

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Evangelical Musick #276

Family and Social Melodies #d396

Family Hymns #d282

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Free Methodist Hymnal #185

Full Salvation Hymnal #d189

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Glad Hallelujahs #149

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Glowing Songs #123

Good News in Song. Rev. ed. #d210

Gospel Gems #d181

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Gospel Hosannas #87

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Gospel Hymns No. 2 #108

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Gospel Hymns Nos. 1 to 6 #684

Gospel Praise Book, enlarged ed. #d146

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Gospel Praise Book. #159a

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Gospel Songs and Hymns No. 1 #185

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Great Joy! #175

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Great Joy! #199

Hallowed Songs #d390

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Hallowed Songs #125

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Hallowed Songs #213

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Heaven's Echo #129

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Hymn and Tune Book of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (Round Note Ed.) #300

Hymn Book of the Colored M.E. Church in America #d593

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Hymn Book of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South #300

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Hymn Book of the Methodist Protestant Church #275

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Hymn Book of the Methodist Protestant Church. (11th ed.) #275

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Hymn Book of the United Evangelical Church #206

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Hymn-Book of the Evangelical Association #216

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Hymnal of the Methodist Episcopal Church #349

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Hymnal of the Methodist Episcopal Church #349

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Hymns and Songs for Social and Sabbath Worship #237

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Hymns and Songs for Social and Sabbath Worship. (Rev. ed.) #237

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Hymns and Songs of Praise for Public and Social Worship #423

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Hymns and Tunes for Prayer and Social Meetings #45

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Hymns and Tunes #136

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Hymns for Social Worship #495

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