Open your eyes and look at the fields, because they are ready for harvest.
John 4:35
Words & Music: Clarence M. Seamans, 1905 (🔊 pdf nwc). Appeared in Carols of Hope (Boston, Massachusetts: Advent Christian Publication Society, 1906), page 8. Note: Bass and tenor voices sing the melody for the first half of the refrain. See score for details.
If you know where to get a good photo of Seamans (head & shoulders, at least 200×300 pixels),
Who will work for Jesus in the harvest field,
The sheaves to garner in?
Who today will join us and the sickle wield,
These precious souls to win?
Refrain
Go, gather in the ripened sheaves,
O do not longer now delay.
Go and work for Jesus in the harvest field,
Go forth and work today.
Every single corner of this worldwide field
Is white with ripened grain;
Faithful, earnest effort will a harvest yield—
God’s work is not in vain.
Refrain
See the host around us who the Lord’s might be!
O do not now delay!
Think of waiting millions far across the sea!
Go forth and work today.
Refrain
There’s a crown awaiting every faithful one
Who lends a helping hand;
Jesus soon is coming and will say, Well done
To all the mission band.
Refrain