The Judgment Day (Smith)

Are you liv­ing for to­day

With the fu­ture far away

Knowing not that ere the night

Death may come and claim his right?

Then

I bid you stop and think

Ere you reach the aw­ful brink

For ’twill then be all too late

To avoid your cer­tain fate!

Are you rea­dy for the judg­ment day?

Are you rea­dy for the judg­ment day?

Have you par­don full and free

Through the Sav­ior slain for thee?

Are you rea­dy for the judg­ment day?

Have you turned away the Light

Sought the dark­ness and the night?

Do you tread in er­ror’s way

And avoid the Sav­ior’s way?

Oh

be­ware! be­ware

I pray

And the voice of God ob­ey

For to turn away the Light

Is to dwell in end­less night!

Have you lost the sense of sin

Silenced con­science’s voice with­in

Placed the judg­ment far away

Fought the light and shunned the day?

You will meet in sin or grace

Meet the Sav­ior face to face;

’Tis for you the quest­ion when?

You must meet Him now or then.

Is it bet­ter then to sin

Than to have His peace with­in?

For the Sav­ior came to God

Bending low be­neath the rod—

Died for guil­ty sin­ners lost

Paid the debt at fear­ful cost;

Oh

then come! no long­er wait

Ere for­ev­er ’tis too late!