Scripture Verse

Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ. Titus 2:13

Introduction

Words: Ma­ry A. Mc­Kee, in The Help­er in Sac­red Song, ed­it­ed by George C. Hugg & Frank L. Arm­strong (Phi­la­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia: Church & Sun­day School Mu­sic Pub­lish­ing, 1889), num­ber 39.

Music: Pem­ber­ton Pierce (🔊 pdf nwc).

If you know where to get a good pho­to of Mc­Kee or Pierce (head & shoul­ders, at least 200×300 pix­els),

Lyrics

We are looking for the dawning
Of a brighter, grander day,
And the curtains of the morning-tide
Will soon be swept away;
Are you rea­dy for His coming?
Will you hasten to obey
When the kingly One is calling
And the clouds have paved His way?

Refrain

He is coming, He is coming,
He is coming, and our faith will hold Him fast;
He is coming, He is coming
To His ransomed ones at last;
We may hear His stately steppings
’Mid the ruins of the past.

Have you sown beside the waters?
Are you rea­dy now to say,
I have scattered with an open hand,
My sheaves about me lay;
Now my sun is slowly west’ring,
While its beams around me stray;
Come, O sun of right­eous­ness, arise!
Assume the sceptered sway.

Refrain

Have you given to the needy
More than mortal can repay?
Have you led them to the fountain
Flashing out a healing spray?
Are you looking to the eastward,
Hoping, waiting while you may?
All will soon be sweet fruition,
Widely flung the portals grey.

Refrain