Before Me every knee will bow; by Me every tongue will swear.
Isaiah 45:23
Words: Charles H. Gabriel, in Songs of the Tabernacle, edited by Nellie Sharpe Anderson (Bellefontaine, Ohio: Tabernacle Publishing, 1916), number 36. Some hymnals show the lyricist as Charlotte G. Homer, one of Gabriel’s pseudonyms.
Music: C. Hubert Bottorf (🔊 pdf nwc).
If you know where to get a good photo of Bottorf (head & shoulders, at least 200×300 pixels),
Someone will come to the Savior tonight!
Out of the darkness to wonderful light;
Someone will turn from the wrong to the right—
Friend, what about you?
Refrain
What about you, what about you?
Is it not time that you loved Him, too?
Why will you linger, why will you delay?
Trust Him, believe, and be saved today.
Someone, repentant, before Him will fall;
Someone will answer the dear Shepherd’s call;
Someone will crown Him the Savior of all—
Friend, what about you?
Refrain
Someone will hear the glad news Thou art Mine
!
Someone will enter the kingdom divine;
’Round them the sunbeams of glory will shine—
Friend, what about you?
Refrain