“The time is short,” the hours go by,
Why, sinner, still delay?
Oh, why not take God at His Word,
And enter while you may?
“The time is short,” the day is near,
When Christ the Lord will come.
Then all who have refused His grace
Will meet an awful doom.
“The time is short,” but happy they
Who in the Lord believe,
For in the twinkling of an eye,
He will His own receive.